ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,892, issued on June 24, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Computer-implemented systems and methods relating to a binary blockchain comprising a pair of coupled blockchains" was invented by John Fletcher (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Martin Sewell (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There may be provided a computer-implemented method. The computer-implemented method includes: i) after a proof-of-stake token is transferred to an address of a determined type on a proof-of-stake blockchain, adding a record of the transfer of the proof-of-stake token to the proof-of-work blockchain; ii) identifying a node, from ...