ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,398, issued on June 10, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Method of using a blockchain" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London), Owen Vaughan (London) and Brock Doiron (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second party receives confirmation that a first party agrees to a statement. The second party receives a piece of information after said confirmation and after a cryptographic signature of the first party. To attest to this, the second party generates their own cryptographic signature by signing a portion of data comprising said piece of information or a transformation thereof. A network of nodes is t...