ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,826, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Generating digital signatures" was invented by Michaella Pettit (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of proving that a target sub-group generated a digital signature, wherein the group is divisible into a plurality of unique sub-groups, each sub-group comprising at least the threshold number of participants. The method comprises: for each sub-group to which the first participant belongs, generating a first ephemeral private key share, wherein each other participant of each respective sub-group generates a respective epheme...