US Patent Issued to NTT on Jan. 27 for "Information processing apparatus, adjacent node selecting method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,158, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NTT INC. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, adjacent node selecting method and program" was invented by Hiroshi Matsuura (Tokyo), Yoshinori Goto (Tokyo) and Hidehiro Sao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device is an information processing device as any node among a plurality of nodes constituting a blockchain network extending over a plurality of areas, and includes: an area determination unit that determines an area to which each of the plurality of nodes belongs based on information registered for each of the plurality of nodes; and a selection unit tha...