US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Jan. 27 for "Data structures for computationally efficient data promulgation among devices in decentralized networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,149, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Data structures for computationally efficient data promulgation among devices in decentralized networks" was invented by Kristine Ing Kushner (Orinda, Calif.) and John T. Wright (Benicia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are approaches for computationally-efficient data promulgation among devices in a network. Structured databases may comprise standardized and immutable bytes, each byte linked to a unique data field, a mutable state element, and a mutable activation element. The state element may indicate that there has been a mutation as w...