US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Jan. 28 for "Methods and devices for recording work history and proving reputation in a blockchain network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,965, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Methods and devices for recording work history and proving reputation in a blockchain network" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London), Alexander Mackay (London), Wei Zhang (London), Andrew James Mee (London) and Steven Patrick Coughlan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system of recording work history of a mining node on a blockchain in a blockchain network. The methods may include mining a first block containing a registration generation transaction that includes, within a registration information field, a miner identifier for the...