Patents by Inventor Juston Johnson

Juston Johnson 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).

  • Key recovery using encrypted secret shares
    Patent number: 11374750
    Abstract: A computing system comprising: processor(s) and memory; at least one network interface communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and configured to communicate with at least one remotely located computing device; wherein the at least one network interface is configured to receive a plurality of public encryption keys from the at least one remotely located computing device; wherein the at least one processor is configured to: split at least one secret into a plurality of shares, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of shares is sufficient to reconstruct the at least one secret; encrypt each of the plurality of shares based on a different public encryption key of the plurality of public encryption keys to create a plurality of encrypted shares; wherein the at least one network interface is configured to communicate the encrypted shares to the at least one remotely located computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: tZERO IP, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Dolan, Michael D. Ornelas, Kevin Hartley, Pengyu Chen, Juston Johnson
  • KEY RECOVERY USING ENCRYPTED SECRET SHARES
    Publication number: 20200389306
    Abstract: A computing system comprising: processor(s) and memory; at least one network interface communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and configured to communicate with at least one remotely located computing device; wherein the at least one network interface is configured to receive a plurality of public encryption keys from the at least one remotely located computing device; wherein the at least one processor is configured to: split at least one secret into a plurality of shares, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of shares is sufficient to reconstruct the at least one secret; encrypt each of the plurality of shares based on a different public encryption key of the plurality of public encryption keys to create a plurality of encrypted shares; wherein the at least one network interface is configured to communicate the encrypted shares to the at least one remotely located computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: tZERO Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Dolan, Michael D. Ornelas, Kevin Hartley, Pengyu Chen, Juston Johnson