ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,750, issued on April 15, was assigned to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"System and method for estimating E2E delay among blockchain nodes over P2P networks" was invented by Hwang Jun Song (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Seung Gyu Ji (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system and method for estimating an end-to-end delay between blockchain nodes in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. The system includes a coordinate system construction unit configured to designate an origin node and anchor nodes among participating nodes having a distributed ledger of P2P networks,...