US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 20 for "Committing data to blockchain based on approximate hash verification" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,720, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Committing data to blockchain based on approximate hash verification" was invented by Praveen Jayachandran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of receiving a data block for storage on a blockchain from an orderer node, the data block comprising a full-step hash of a storage request and a reduced-step hash of the storage request, performing an approximate hash verification on the data block based on the reduced-step hash of the storage request included in the data block, and in respon...