US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus for bug bounty system for blockchain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,727, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HITACHI Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for bug bounty system for blockchain" was invented by Kaiho Fukuchi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Takayuki Suzuki (Cupertino, Calif.), Takatoshi Ohara (Cupertino, Calif.), Shin Tezuka (Campbell, Calif.), Nobutaka Kawaguchi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ken Naganuma (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations provide a blockchain-based bug bounty platform/system for discovering system vulnerability. To prevent attack method from becoming public, the attack and test are performed in the attacker's (end-user's) private blockchain (BC) e...