US Patent Issued to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 7 for "Yes and no secret sharing with hidden access structures" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,705, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Yes and no secret sharing with hidden access structures" was invented by Foo Yee Yeo (Shugart, Singapore) and Vipin Singh Sehrawat (Shugart, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secret sharing scheme with yes and no shares and having a hidden access structure. The secret sharing scheme may include share generation in which yes shares and no shares are generated for, and distributed to, each party in the secret sharing scheme. In turn, upon an attempt to reconstruct the secret, participants in the reconstruction each provide a share, which is unknow...