ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,468, issued on March 18, was assigned to THE BLOCKHOUSE TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).
"Method and device for preventing forking of blockchain" was invented by Bangdao Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Andrew William Roscoe (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and device for preventing blockchain forking. The method includes: selecting s consecutive blocks Bn to Bn+s; generating a key pair for block Bn by a node An that creates the block Bn; holding the node An active in the blockchain's continuously generating blocks Bn+1 to Bn+s until the block Bn+s of s consecutive blocks become...