Patents by Inventor Jonas Nick

Jonas Nick 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: 11310060
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for using equivalent secret values across different elliptic curves. For example, a transferring party may wish to exchange a first asset on a first blockchain with a recipient for a second asset on a second blockchain. After exchanging sets of public keys with a recipient, a transferring party may generate a zero-knowledge proof and public keys associated with a selected bitstring. The recipient may then verify the proof, which shows that private keys associated with the public keys associated with the bitstring are both derived from the bitstring without revealing the bitstring itself. Once validity of the private keys has been established, the transferring party may publish a second signature to claim the second asset. The published second signature may then be used to publish a first signature (generated using the selected bitstring) on the first blockchain to claim the first asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Blockstream Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Poelstra, Jonas Nick
  • Patent number: 10805090
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for transferring and verifying the transfer of an asset from a limited-participant side chain back to a main blockchain. A public difference, associated with a secret difference, is determined as a difference between a main blockchain address and the public offline key of a transferring participant. The public difference is used, along with each participant public online key, to generate a ring signature key for each participant. A ring signature is then generated over the ring signature keys, based on the public online keys and a set of uniform random scalars (each associated with a participant public online key). The main blockchain address, a first coefficient from the ring signature, and the uniform random scalars are then published. When verified, the published ring signature shows that the transferring participant has control of the main blockchain address and the private offline key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Blockstream Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Poelstra, Glenn Willen, Gregory Maxwell, Gregory Sanders, Jonas Nick, Matt Corollo