US Patent Issued to NCHAIN LICENSING on March 4 for "Computer-implemented systems and methods for using a blockchain to perform an atomic swap" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,688, issued on March 4, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Computer-implemented systems and methods for using a blockchain to perform an atomic swap" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for a computer-implemented security method implemented on one or more blockchains. The method comprises the steps of: applying a one-way function to a first secret value accessible to a first user to create a first veiled secret value; communicating the first veiled secret value from the first user to a second user; receiving a second veiled secret value from the seco...