ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,967, issued on March 25, was assigned to GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).

"Blockchain sharding method combining spectral clustering and reputation value mechanism" was invented by Rong Yu (Guangdong, China), Libin Cai (Guangdong, China), Siming Wang (Guangdong, China) and Beihai Tan (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain sharding method combining spectral clustering and a reputation value mechanism includes: obtaining, every other account grouping cycle Ta, account transaction data recorded during operation of a blockchain to generate an account transaction graph; obtaining an adjacency s...