ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,775, issued on May 27, was assigned to DFINITY STIFTUNG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Multi-party computations in a distributed network" was invented by Jens Groth (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to a distributed network. The distributed network comprises a replicated system computing cluster comprising system computational units. The system computational units comprise deterministic subunits configured to perform a deterministic and replicated computation across the replicated system computing cluster and non-deterministic subunits for performing non-deterministic computations. The r...