US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Oct. 14 for "System and method of blockchain compression" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,563, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"System and method of blockchain compression" was invented by Greg Schumacher (Holliston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for compressing a blockchain. The system comprises a processor; a non-transitory memory; an inactive block evaluator function stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor, traverses a first blockchain stored in the non-transitory memory to identify inactive blocks on the first blockchain; a threshold evaluator function stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the proce...