ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,196, issued on May 20, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Identifying denial-of-service attacks" was invented by Michaella Pettit (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of identifying a denial-of-service attack during a threshold signature scheme, wherein each participant has respective shares of first and second shared secrets, wherein the method is performed by a first participant of the group and comprises: calculating a first target share; calculating a target value based on the first target share and a first predetermined amount of other target shares; calculating a target publ...