ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,944, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Adapting connections of a layered network" was invented by Owen Vaughan (London), Jack Owen Davies (London) and Craig Steven Wright (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for adapting connections between nodes of a layered network. The layered network comprises a plurality of nodes arranged in an ordered set of layers. The ordered set of layers comprises, in order, a core layer comprising a set of core nodes, a second layer comprising a set of second nodes, and one or more outer layers each comprising a respective set of outer...