ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,146, issued on June 16.

"System and method using blockchain atomic record transaction processing" was invented by Luis Eduardo Gutierrez-Sheris (Glen Rock, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved system implements Fitness Gradient Consensus including hash distance and bucket consensus variations within a digital blockchain by calculating the highest fitness value competing blocks to resolve conflicts and allocate the rewards associated with building new blocks. The consensus system applies conflict resolution formulas to incentivize block-building nodes to share blocks generated, as it completes construction, to improve chanc...