US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Sept. 30 for "Method for authenticating distributed votes for a distributed system" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,067, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method for authenticating distributed votes for a distributed system" was invented by David Kozhaya (Dietikon, Switzerland) and Maelle Kabir-Querrec (Aarburg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a system and a method for authenticating distributed votes for a distributed system. The distributed system includes a plurality of nodes and at least one leader node. The method includes: sending out, by the leader node, a prepare message including a proposal; generating, by each of at least some of the plurality of nodes, a set of hash...