ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,716, issued on May 27, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Computer-implemented systems and methods for serialisation of arithmetic circuits" was invented by Alexandra Covaci (London), Patrick Motylinski (London), Simone Madeo (London), Stephane Vincent (Luxembourg) and Craig Steven Wright (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein may be utilized to serialise and de-serialise arithmetic circuits that are utilized in the execution of computer programs. The arithmetic circuit may be utilized to build a Quadratic Arithmetic Problem (QAP) that is compiled into a set of cryptographic routines ...