US Patent Issued to Ava Labs on July 14 for "Multiple alpha beta pairs in consensus protocols" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,821, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ava Labs Inc. (New York).

"Multiple alpha beta pairs in consensus protocols" was invented by Aaron Buchwald (New York), Stephen John Buttolph (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Andrew Lewis-Pye (London), Patrick Robert O'Grady (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kevin Sekniqi (Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method determines a current preference value, the current preference value being one of two possible values. The method receives k preference values, each being one of the possible values. The method defines alpha1, alpha2, and beta2, with alpha1less thanthan k/2 and alpha2less than=alpha1. Res...