US Patent Issued to GloBra on Sept. 30 for "Database system for a social network using blockchain technology" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,644, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GloBra GmbH (Salzburg, Austria).

"Database system for a social network using blockchain technology" was invented by Wolfgang Pinegger (Schladming-Rohrmoos, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relational database system for a social network through which a number of users can share data with each other, wherein the data associated with a user is stored as data blocks, the data blocks associated with a user can be managed exclusively by the user, the sharing of data of the data blocks between users in the network is defined by predetermined data chains, wherein each predetermined data chai...