ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,621, issued on Nov. 25.
"Mapping cryptographic keys to distributed ledger shards" was invented by Jonathan Ward (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain) and James Riehl (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a distributed computer system that includes a plurality of worker nodes that are coupled together via a data communication network to exchange data therebetween, wherein computation by the worker nodes is managed within the distributed computer system. The distributed computer system configured to implement a scheme for mapping cryptographic keys to a specific shard in the distributed ledger arrangeme...