ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,785, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Wuhan, China).
"Graphic-blockchain-orientated sharding storage apparatus and method thereof" was invented by Jiang Xiao (Wuhan, China), Feng Cheng (Wuhan, China), Junpei Ni (Wuhan, China), Wenhui Yang (Wuhan, China) and Hai Jin (Wuhan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a graphic-blockchain-orientated sharding storage apparatus, at least comprising a first sharding module and a second sharding module, wherein the first sharding module shards nodes having different resource capacity levels based on ledger data organi...