US Patent Issued to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on May 20 for "Scalable, secure, and broad-spectrum mechanism for enforcement of protocols over multi-agent systems" (California, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,289, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, N.J.).

"Scalable, secure, and broad-spectrum mechanism for enforcement of protocols over multi-agent systems" was invented by Naftaly H. Minsky (New York), Chen Cong (Santa Clara, Calif.) and David M. Zimmerman (South Orange, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enforcing contract/protocol/law execution have a wide range of applicability. Embodiments have very low latency between a transaction and its validation and have strong scalability. An embodiment is a system for enforcing execution of a protocol among a pl...