ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,671, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Key generation method" was invented by Jack Owen Davies (London) and Simon Ordish (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating keys of a hierarchical key structure, wherein the method is performed by a key generator and comprises: obtaining a child key derivation path, wherein the child key derivation path comprises a sequence of elements, wherein the sequence of elements comprises one or more sets of one or more elements, each set of elements being generated based on a respective data item of a data path, and wherei...