US Patent Issued to Hedera Hashgraph on Oct. 14 for "Methods and apparatus for a distributed database within a network" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,622, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hedera Hashgraph LLC (Las Vegas).

"Methods and apparatus for a distributed database within a network" was invented by Leemon C. Baird III (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method includes defining an address book for a distributed database. The address book includes an identifier for each compute device from a set of compute devices that implements the distributed database via a network. The method further includes receiving, from a compute device from the set of compute devices, an event including a transaction to update the address book and calculating, ...