ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,011, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device including partial ledger and method in blockchain network" was invented by Woongah Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Wooup Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a memory storing a partial ledger including a part of a full ledger for a blockchain network, and at least one processor configured to generate an ending block as a block chained after the transaction block. The ending block includes an ending hash value of a transaction block and...