US Patent Issued to NCHAIN LICENSING on March 18 for "Computer-implemented system and method for distributing shares of digitally signed data" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,988, issued on March 18, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Computer-implemented system and method for distributing shares of digitally signed data" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for distributing shares of a digitally signed message among a plurality of participants. The method comprising: inputting a digital message to an elliptic curve digital signature algorithm to provide a digital signature; mapping the digital signature to elliptic curve points of an elliptic curve cryptography system common to the participants. In a first encrypti...