ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,322, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Method and system for pruning blocks from a blockchain" was invented by Stephen Higgins (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for confirming configuration of a new current genesis block in a blockchain configured to enable pruning before the new current genesis block includes: receiving, by a blockchain node in a blockchain network, a genesis response message from another node in the network, the message including a configuration value and an ordinal value; identifying a plurality of standard blocks in the blockchain added subsequent ...