ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,578, issued on July 8, was assigned to Xidian University (Xi'an, China).

"Method of constructing high-performance anti-tampering database based on blockchain" was invented by Xinghua Li (Xi An, China), Yunwei Wang (Xi An, China), Xiaoqiang Li (Xi An, China), Yanbing Ren (Xi An, China), Hang Wang (Xi An, China) and Zhongyuan Hu (Xi An, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of constructing a high-performance anti-tampering database based on blockchain includes: acquiring change increment information corresponding to data to-be-stored through at least one of database nodes and storing the change increment information as bottom-la...