ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,915, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Storing a program on a blockchain" was invented by Brock Doiron (London) and Craig Steven Wright (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: retrieving a header file from a first transaction recorded on a blockchain maintained across a plurality of nodes of a blockchain network. The header file comprises: program header information, and reference information comprising one or more respective transaction IDs of one or more respective second transactions stored on the blockchain. Each second transaction comprises a respective section of a ...