US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Methods and systems for streaming block templates with cross-references" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,648, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for streaming block templates with cross-references" was invented by Ricky Charles Rand (London) and Steven Patrick Coughlan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for compressing transaction identifiers by a first mining node in a blockchain network. The method may include building a first candidate block containing a first ordered list of transaction identifiers; receiving, from a second mining node, data defining a second ordered list of transaction identifiers in a second candidate block being mined by the second...