ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,004, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Secure dynamic threshold signature scheme employing trusted hardware" was invented by Thomas Trevethan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are presented for using a processing resource to control access to a resource. Steps comprise generating an elliptic curve digital signature algorithm signature comprising a first signature component, r, and a second signature component, w, the generation step comprising: forming, by a node, a signing group with other nodes; obtaining, by the node, based on a secure random number: a) a multiplicative inv...