ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,268, issued on April 22, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Secure transfer between blockchains" was invented by John Fletcher (London), Marco Bardoscia (London) and Thomas Trevethan (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There may be provided a computer-implemented method. It may be implemented using a blockchain such as, for example, the Bitcoin blockchain. The computer-implemented method includes: i) joining a congress by transferring, by a node operating in a proof-of-work blockchain network, one or more digital assets to a congress pool having one or more other digital assets associated with other members of...