US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Nov. 11 for "Methods and devices for registering and authenticating miner identity in a blockchain network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,026, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Methods and devices for registering and authenticating miner identity 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 systems for registering identity of a mining node on a blockchain in a blockchain network. The methods may include creating a validity-check transaction having a first output controlled by the mining node and containing a miner identifier and propagating the validity...