US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 25 for "Consensus data filtering in proof of space blockchain systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,961, issued on March 25, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Consensus data filtering in proof of space blockchain systems" was invented by Shashank Agrawal (Fremont, Calif.) and Cyril Guyot (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Blockchain systems operate over a network of computing devices. Proof of space blockchain consensus systems utilize data stored in storage devices across the computing devices within the network. These storage devices are utilized to generate and store proof of space consensus data. This data is then accessed at a later time to respond to challenges issued across...