US Patent Issued on Sept. 29 for "Secure retrieval of off-network data by trusted network entities" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,249, issued on Sept. 29.

"Secure retrieval of off-network data by trusted network entities" was invented by Michael Ira Kanovitz (Chicago) and Jon Isaac Loevy (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for carrying out secure retrieval of off-network data are disclosed. A computing system configured for operating as a validator node of a network of nodes operating a decentralized network may be selected to securely retrieve off-network data for the decentralized network responsive to successfully validating a new data block of the decentralized network. The computing system may then retrieve a queue entry from a que...