ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,279, issued on June 2.
"Method for creating and validating cryptographically secured graphs in distributed and decentralized networks" was invented by Vahid Jalili (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating and managing graphs with cryptographically secured nodes and edges operated within a distributed and decentralized network is disclosed. The method establishes a digital signature chain between a node and its incoming and outgoing edges; hence the digital signature chain of a node and its connecting edges remains independent from other nodes' chain unless they share an edge, thereby enabling highly paral...