US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on March 25 for "Off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain" (Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,900, issued on March 25, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain" was invented by Stephen Opferman (Denver), William R. Benassi (Elk River, Minn.) and James P. Gately (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing off-chain functionality for data contained in blocks of blockchain. In various embodiments, a computing system might assemble data extracted from each block of a first block(s) of a first instance of a blockchain in a generated first file(s), the assembled data being organized...