ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,658, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Method of generating shares of a shared secret" was invented by Michaella Pettit (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating shares of a shared secret, wherein each of a group of participants has a respective first secret share of the shared secret, wherein the method is performed by a first participant of the group and comprises: generating a respective blinding share of a shared blinding secret, obtaining at least a threshold number of respective intermediary shares from each of the first group of participants, wher...