US Patent Issued to NCHAIN LICENSING on April 8 for "Blockchain implemented counting system and method for use in secure voting and distribution" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,466, issued on April 8, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Blockchain implemented counting system and method for use in secure voting and distribution" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London) and Stephane Savanah (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are presented for the implementation of automated processes, such as device/system control, process control, distributed computing and storage, and event detecting, monitoring and/or counting mechanism. The event may be, for example, a vote, decision or selection which is made by a given entity. A counting solution is presented in which a computing ...