ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,953, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Script-based blockchain interaction" was invented by Ying Chan (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Dean Kramer (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There may be provided a computer-implemented method. It may be implemented using a blockchain network. The computer-implemented method includes: i) receiving, at a node in a blockchain network, a first transaction associated with a digital asset, the first transaction including a locking script that specifies a set of constraints on a second transaction to transfer control of the digital asset, one of the constr...