ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,545, issued on July 8, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).
"Satellite-based blockchain architecture" was invented by Xintong Ling (Jiangsu, China), Pengcheng Chen (Jiangsu, China), Zheng Gao (Jiangsu, China), Yuwei Le (Jiangsu, China), Jiaheng Wang (Jiangsu, China), Li You (Jiangsu, China) and Xiqi Gao (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a satellite-based blockchain architecture, including a terrestrial blockchain miner network, a constellation system, and a consensus protocol coordinating the constellation system and the terrestrial blockchain miner network. In each round,...