US Patent Issued to Cypherium Blockchain on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for selecting and utilizing a committee of validator nodes in a distributed system" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,569, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cypherium Blockchain Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for selecting and utilizing a committee of validator nodes in a distributed system" was invented by Yangrui Guo (Long Island City, N.Y.), Qiandong Yang (Shenzhen, China), Hui Zhou (Hong Kong), Weiqiang Lu (Shenzhen, China), Sheng Zeng (Shenzhen, China), Liang Yang (Shenzen, China) and Sicong Zhuang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed transaction system is provided including a group of validator nodes that are known to each other in a network but are indistinguishable to other network nodes. The validator nodes ...