ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,250, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Edgevana Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Systems, methods, and computer readable medium for dynamically analyzing and/or modifying blockchain networks" was invented by Ryan Fay (San Diego), Mark Thiele (Las Vegas), Subhan Tamaddon Jahromi (Vienna, Va.) and Mohammad Nabi Paryavi (Kaysville, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A methodology to determine the level of decentralization for systems that use distributed ledger technologies-including but not limited to blockchains-that comprise an overall measure of decentralization created by summing multiple measures that are calculated using the Gini Coefficie...