US Patent Issued to NCHAIN LICENSING on Oct. 21 for "Blockchain for general computation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,033, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Blockchain for general computation" was invented by Thomas Trevethan (London) and Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are presented for a computer-implemented method that may be implemented using a blockchain network. The computer-implemented method includes: monitoring a system to detect a challenge to a proposer string in response to a request, and as a result of detecting the challenge: placing a first digital asset and a second digital asset under exclusive control of a group of nodes via a public key associated with...