US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on April 15 for "Method and apparatus for agreement of block in blockchain network" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,587, issued on April 15, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for agreement of block in blockchain network" was invented by Young-Chang Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Ki Young Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jintae Oh (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agreement method of a block in a blockchain network by a chair node includes: receiving, from a plurality of congress nodes in a congress, information on an exceptional situation which occurred during agreement processes of a block; transmitting an empty block agreement start message includin...