US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on July 29 for "Attestation service for use with a blockchain network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,287, issued on July 29, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Attestation service for use with a blockchain network" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London), Owen Vaughan (London) and Jack Owen Davies (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising, at an attesting node of a network: receiving a sequence of data items from one or more client nodes of the network, determining an order of the sequence of data items, and attesting to the order by: including an indication of a respective set of one or more of the data items in each of a series of blockchain transactions. Each successive transaction comp...