US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on July 22 for "Method and apparatus for electing representative node device, computer device, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,500, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for electing representative node device, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Rui Guo (Shenzhen, China), Maocai Li (Shenzhen, China), Zongyou Wang (Shenzhen, China), Haitao Tu (Shenzhen, China), Li Kong (Shenzhen, China), Kaiban Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Changqing Yang (Shenzhen, China), Nan Wang (Shenzhen, China), Yong Ding (Shenzhen, China) and Yifang Shi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for electing a representative node device performed by a first node device in a blockchain system inc...