ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,759, issued on June 24, was assigned to Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan).

"Blockchain network system" was invented by Ryoichi Shinkuma (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain network system includes a plurality of sensor devices and a blockchain network. The sensor devices are communicably connected with each other via the blockchain network, and sensor data acquired by the sensor devices is managed on the blockchain network in a distributed manner. The sensor device includes a sensor unit for sequentially acquiring sensor data in real space on a frame-by-frame basis, a data processing unit for processing the sensor ...