US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 20 for "Enabling consensus in distributed transaction processing systems" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,746, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Enabling consensus in distributed transaction processing systems" was invented by Bartlomiej Stanislaw Filipek (Filipowice, Poland), Michal Zarakowski (Cracow, Poland), Wojciech Mis (Cracow, Poland) and Maciej Snopczynski (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed transaction processing system, comprising a peer node associated with a blockchain network. The peer node may be adapted to record join-time parameters for a plurality of blockchain nodes, compare a first join-time parameter for a first node of the plurality of b...