US Patent Issued to Chia Network on Aug. 12 for "Method for securing private structured databases within a public blockchain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,651, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Chia Network Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method for securing private structured databases within a public blockchain" was invented by Kenneth K. Griggs (San Francisco) and Bram Cohen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, by a first node in a distributed network: generating a hash tree representing a structured data object including a data unit, the hash tree including a root hash and a data unit hash representing the data unit; accessing a non-interactive proof of inclusion representing membership of the data unit hash within the hash tree; generating a transaction configu...