US Patent Issued to Veiovia on Jan. 28 for "Externally validated proof of work for appending a block record to a blockchain with a data broker server" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,039, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Veiovia Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Externally validated proof of work for appending a block record to a blockchain with a data broker server" was invented by Roxana Iuliana Teodor (York, Great Britain), Peter Damian Ashton (York, Great Britain), Remy Lyon (York, Great Britain) and Siamak Fayyaz Shahandashti (York, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing an externally verifiable proof of work comprises receiving signal information to be kept private; storing the signal information as one or more data packages in a data package store; and receiving a request for a first...