US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on July 8 for "Method and system for node discovery and self-healing of blockchain networks" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,624, issued on July 8, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Method and system for node discovery and self-healing of blockchain networks" was invented by Steven C. Davis (Saint Peters, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic configuration of a communication network includes: generating a request message, the request message including a communication address associated; transmitting the generated request message as a broadcast message to a plurality of computing devices using a predefined user datagram protocol (UDP) port, the message being broadcast with a predetermined time to live; recei...