ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,417, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Bootstrapping root of trust for federated blockchains" was invented by Ghassan Karame (Heidelberg, Germany), Sebastien Andreina (Heidelberg, Germany) and Wenting Li (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for supporting trusted communication between nodes from different blockchains are provided. The method comprises using a bootstrapping service for bootstrapping trust among blockchains of a group of federated blockchains. The bootstrapping service records security parameters of the federated blockchains. The security parameters include inform...