US Patent Issued on April 1 for "Blockchain system with improved throughput by splitting blocks, and its computer program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,444, issued on April 1.

"Blockchain system with improved throughput by splitting blocks, and its computer program" was invented by Naoki Shibata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain system is capable of reducing the generation of isolated blocks and unfairness among miners resulting from block propagation delays caused by an increase in block data size. Each block is divided into part A and part B, and transaction information is stored in part B. After the miner receives Part A of a certain block and before the reception of Part B is completed, the miner determines the transaction data to be included in the next ...