ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,153, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Decentralized hash table" was invented by Michael David Neale (Wentworth Falls, Australia) and Gabriel Cohen (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decentralized hast table techniques are described. In an implementation, a hash table input is received including a decentralized identifier and index data configured to locate the decentralized identifier. A hash table entry is generated for inclusion in a decentralized hash table in compliance with a hash table schema. A decentralized identifier search query is received from a client device. The decentralize...