ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,922, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Threshold signature scheme" was invented by Michaella Pettit (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating a share of a threshold signature, wherein a group of participants comprises a set of target participants and a set of dummy participants, wherein the number of target participants is less than the number of participants required to generate a valid signature, wherein each target participant and each dummy participants has i) a respective share of a first private key, ii) a respective share of an ephemeral private k...