US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 18 for "Method for signing a new block in a decentralized blockchain consensus network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,790, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for signing a new block in a decentralized blockchain consensus network" was invented by Ghassan Karame (Heidelberg, Germany), Wenting Li (Heidelberg, Germany), Giorgia Azzurra Marson (Heidelberg, Germany), Jens-Matthias Bohli (Heidelberg, Germany) and Sebastien Andreina (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for registering a mining computing entity (MCE) with a trusted execution environment entity (TEEE) in a blockchain of a distributed blockchain consensus network (DBCN), based on a proof-of-stake protocol, includes determining public signing ...