ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,324, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for communication, storage and processing of data provided by an entity over a blockchain network" was invented by Silvia Bartolucci (London), Pauline Bernat (London) and Daniel Joseph (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of making a decision on a blockchain is provided. The method comprises providing a blockchain voting commitment transaction (2) redeemable by means of a first signature (Sigma(Am), Sigma(Bm)) associated with a selection (A, B) and a second signature (Sigma(A), Sigma(B)) associated with...