US Patent Issued to HANGZHOU HYPERCHAIN TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 3 for "Consensus method and apparatus for blockchain, server and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,531, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HANGZHOU HYPERCHAIN TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Consensus method and apparatus for blockchain, server and storage medium" was invented by Weiwei Qiu (Hangzhou Zhejiang, China), Wei Li (Hangzhou Zhejiang, China), Fanglei Huang (Hangzhou Zhejiang, China), Kejie Zhang (Hangzhou Zhejiang, China) and Hao Duan (Hangzhou Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a consensus method and apparatus for a blockchain, a server and a storage medium. A checkpoint round is designed without waiting for transaction execution results of all nodes in each consensus round so as to reduce...