ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,386, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Schvey Inc. (New York).
"Pruning entries in tamper-evident data stores" was invented by Jeffrey Schvey (New York), George Rabanca (New York), Joby Thundil (New York) and Josh Dillon (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process that includes pruning entries in a tamper-evident data store while maintaining tamper-evident properties of prior and subsequent entries after pruning. Operations include traversing a linked list of instances of program state of a smart contract in the tamper-evident data store and pruning identified instances of program state in the tamper-evident data ...