US Patent Issued to Etherweb Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Distributed domain name resolution and method for use of same" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,405, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Etherweb Technologies LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Distributed domain name resolution and method for use of same" was invented by Scott Gaydos (Plano, Texas) and Robert Otting (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for distributed domain name address resolution, including top-level domain name address resolution, and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, a blockchain stores distributed domain names with respective Internet Protocol address information. A smart contract, which defines shared logic to execute operations on the blockchain, runs on the bl...