ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,079, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Fall Guy LLC (Seattle).
"Credentialed blockchain participation" was invented by Patrick Meehan (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system comprises a plurality of network computing devices, each maintaining an instance of a blockchain. The blockchain includes an ordered set of blocks, each block including one or more transaction entries and a cryptographic hash of an immediately preceding block. The blockchain further includes new participant introduction logic configured to add a transaction entry to a block of the blockchain. The transaction entry includes a blockchain account...