US Patent Issued to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University on Aug. 26 for "Watermarking method for smart contract" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,962, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Watermarking method for smart contract" was invented by Hyoungshick Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taeyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yunhee Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chanjong Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyungjoon Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watermarking method for smart contract according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises compiling a source code of a smart contract to create a contract creation bytecode and a runtime bytecode; generating a control flow graph...