ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,364, issued on April 21, was assigned to ATOS PUBLIC SAFETY LLC (Irving, Texas).

"Method and system for optimizing blockchain complexity" was invented by Zisis Tsiatsikas (Salonika, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for optimizing blockchain complexity can be configured for eliminating the dispersion of context-related transactions. Embodiments can include monitoring node assigning a leadership role to be a leader node for an upcoming mining round. The leader node can cluster one or more transactions for an incident and begin mining one or more blocks. A non-leader node can check if one or more transactions...