US Patent Issued to eBay on Nov. 25 for "Blockchain consensus protocol using predictive proof of metrics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,986, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Blockchain consensus protocol using predictive proof of metrics" was invented by Venkata Siva Vijayendra Bhamidipati (San Jose, Calif.), Derek Chamorro (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Chan (San Jose, Calif.), Arpit Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Ashok Srinivasa Murthy (San Jose, Calif.) and Anirudh Kamalapuram Muralidhar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are shown for selecting a provider to service a client service request using a consensus protocol and creating a block on a blockchain to service the client service request. In accordance with so...