ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,806, issued on April 15, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Operating system for blockchain IoT devices" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London) and Stephane Savanah (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a generic operating system for coordinating, controlling and/or influencing the activities of a device. The invention is implemented using a blockchain platform with which the operating system is arranged to interact. The blockchain may be the Bitcoin blockchain. In a preferred embodiment, the device is an Internet of Things (TOT) device. The invention provides a computer-implemented ...