US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on Feb. 3 for "Consensus processing method and apparatus for blockchain network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,442, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Consensus processing method and apparatus for blockchain network" was invented by Wenhui Yang (Guangdong, China) and Zhichao Du (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consensus processing method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining a type of the consensus algorithm currently running in the blockchain network, the type of the consensus algorithm comprising a first type and a second type; performing consensus environment detection on the blockchain network to obtain a detection result in response to the blo...