Patents by Inventor ALEXANDER SCOT MILLER

ALEXANDER SCOT MILLER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11233644
    Abstract: A secure device comprises a secure computing environment (SCE) that stores one or more cryptographic secrets, such as private keys, and is able to receive input from secure input devices such as a keypad or smartcard interface and provide output to secure output devices such as a secure display. The SCE provides safeguards against remote and physical exploits, erasing or rendering unusable the secrets in the event of actual or suspected exploit, protecting the secrets from compromise. The SCE may digitally sign internally generated messages or messages from an external device such as a smartphone. Message signing conditions may be checked and satisfied in the SCE before a digitally signed message is generated. Messages may be automatically signed if they satisfy specified conditions. The secure device may be used as part of a multisignature scheme in which a plurality of private keys are used to create a digital signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: GRIDPLUS INC.
    Inventors: Karl J. Kreder, III, Alexander Scot Miller, Mark Vincent D'Agostino, John R. Boyd, IV
  • Publication number: 20200394651
    Abstract: A system enables cryptocurrency payment transactions between devices using off-chain asset data that is related to blockchain assets within a blockchain but without committing the payment transaction to the blockchain until a later time. A device selects a settlement model to determine if a payment transaction is valid. When valid, the device adjusts a value of off-chain asset data stored in its memory. The device may aggregate multiple transactions, which may involve the same or different cryptocurrencies, adjusting the value of the off-chain asset data stored in its memory after each transaction. Subsequently, the device may commit at least a portion of the off-chain asset data to the blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: KARL J. KREDER, III, ALEXANDER SCOT MILLER, JOHN R. BOYD, IV
  • Publication number: 20190052461
    Abstract: A secure device comprises a secure computing environment (SCE) that stores one or more cryptographic secrets, such as private keys, and is able to receive input from secure input devices such as a keypad or smartcard interface and provide output to secure output devices such as a secure display. The SCE provides safeguards against remote and physical exploits, erasing or rendering unusable the secrets in the event of actual or suspected exploit, protecting the secrets from compromise. The SCE may digitally sign internally generated messages or messages from an external device such as a smartphone. Message signing conditions may be checked and satisfied in the SCE before a digitally signed message is generated. Messages may be automatically signed if they satisfy specified conditions. The secure device may be used as part of a multisignature scheme in which a plurality of private keys are used to create a digital signature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: KARL J. KREDER, III, ALEXANDER SCOT MILLER, MARK VINCENT D'AGOSTINO, JOHN R. BOYD, IV