ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,120, issued on July 14, was assigned to 78Researchlab Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for obfuscation" was invented by Kyungdong Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungyup Nam (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are an apparatus and method for obfuscating a smart contract. The apparatus for obfuscating a smart contract includes: memory; and a controller configured to, when obtaining a first smart contract, generate a second smart contract by obfuscating at least part of the first smart contract, to generate a third smart contract based on the first smart contract, and to register the second and thir...