US Patent Issued to 42DOT on Oct. 27 for "Method and apparatus for managing off-chain data" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,913, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to 42DOT INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for managing off-chain data" was invented by Geun Yong Yun (Yongin, South Korea) and Seo Gue Kim (Seongnam, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method of managing off-chain data and a device therefor. A method of operating a device that constitutes a blockchain network includes generating a first hash value regarding unit data using a first hash function and determining a target shard to store the unit data from among a plurality of shards based on the first hash value, transmitting a first request to store the unit da...