US Patent Issued to NCHAIN LICENSING on March 18 for "Maintaining blocks of a blockchain in a partitioned blockchain network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,004, issued on March 18, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Maintaining blocks of a blockchain in a partitioned blockchain network" was invented by Dean Kramer (London), Martin Sewell (London) and Bassem Ammar (Lancaster, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system is provided that maintains blocks of a blockchain across nodes of a sharded blockchain network, wherein each node is a member of one or more shards of a plurality of active shards. The method and system employ a given node that is a member of a particular subset of the plurality of active shards to generate d...