ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,953, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Sparse peer with transient participation" was invented by Balaji Viswanathan (Bangalore, India), Krishnasuri Narayanam (Bangalore, India), Senthilnathan Natarajan (Bangalore, India) and Vinayaka Pandit (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a lead peer, to a blockchain network of an organization configured to store assets, receiving, by the lead peer, from an ordering server, a block that contains a plurality of chaincode transactions belonging to plurality of peers ...