ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,678, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ava Labs Inc. (New York).
"Congestion control protocol" was invented by Stephen John Buttolph (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Patrick Robert O'Grady (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin Sekniqi (Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.) and Emin Gun Sirer (Ithaca, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for proposing blocks to be added to a blockchain. Various aspects may include performing adding block headers to a first blockchain, wherein the block headers reference a set of validators. Aspects may also include adding a temporal parameter t...