US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for supporting smart contracts in a blockchain network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,010, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for supporting smart contracts in a blockchain network" was invented by Jens-rene Giesen (Duisburg, Germany), Michael Rodler (Duisburg, Germany), Lucas Davi (Duisburg, Germany), Sebastien Andreina (Heidelberg, Germany) and Ghassan Karame (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for supporting smart contracts in a blockchain network is provided. The method includes translating a source code of a smart contract into an abstract syntax tree model and generating a code property graph based on the abstract syntax tree mod...