US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 30 for "Method and system for scaling blockchains via secure chain division" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,560, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for scaling blockchains via secure chain division" was invented by Sebastien Andreina (Heidelberg, Germany), Giorgia Azzurra Marson (Heidelberg, Germany), Lorenzo Alluminio (Heidelberg, Germany) and Ghassan Karame (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for secure chain division of a satellite chain by a validator node of a permission-based blockchain system includes executing, by communicating with a set of validator nodes of an original satellite chain of the blockchain system, a validator assignment scheme that splits the set of va...