US Patent Issued to NCHAIN LICENSING on June 24 for "Computer-implemented method and system for transferring access to a digital asset" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,908, issued on June 24, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Computer-implemented method and system for transferring access to a digital asset" was invented by John Fletcher (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Thomas Trevethan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of digitally signing a message is disclosed. The method comprises distributing first shares of a first secret value among a plurality of participants, wherein the first secret value is a private key accessible by means of a first threshold number of the first shares, and is inaccessible to less than the first threshold number of the first shares; di...