US Patent Issued to FUTO Holdings on Aug. 26 for "Decentralized social network systems and methods" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,522, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to FUTO Holdings Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Decentralized social network systems and methods" was invented by Harpo Roeder (Austin, Texas), Eron Jokipii (Austin, Texas), Koen Jeukendrup (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Kelvin Keultjes (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decentralized social network architecture allows reliable, multi-device, censorship-resistant distribution of messages. Network messages include a profile ID identifying a cryptographic public key, a device ID identifying a device used by the profile, a payload, a vector clock for the profile including a scalar for eac...