ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,598, issued on July 22, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Consensus automation" was invented by Mathieu Boussard (Massy, France) and Serge Papillon (Massy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: retrieving update rules stored in a distributed ledger from the distributed ledger; checking whether or not a received initial transaction fulfills all the retrieved update rules; creating a block comprising the initial transaction if the initial transaction fulfills all the retrieved update rules; broadcasting the block into a network of the distributed ledger, wherein, the initial transaction reque...