ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,171, issued on April 22, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Computer-implemented system and method" was invented by Andrew James Mee (London) and Steven Patrick Coughlan (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect, the present disclosure proposes computer implemented methods, devices, and systems for implementing a channel service for messages or transactions that are associated with a blockchain, the channel service being provided for one or more clients. The method comprising providing a given client access to one or more functions that enable direct communication between the given client and anoth...