US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Nov. 18 for "Compute services for a platform of services associated with a blockchain" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,831, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Compute services for a platform of services associated with a blockchain" was invented by Andrew James Mee (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for enabling the execution of one or more smart contracts based on a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transmission protocol format request from the client, accessing a smart contract SC in the request and identifying an event stream ES implemented using the blockchain, where the ES is specific to the SC, the ES representing the states of the SC. The current state of the smart contract ESn...