ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,822, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ava Labs Inc. (New York).
"Verifiable state transitions" was invented by Stephen John Buttolph (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Patrick Robert O'Grady (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for storing blockchain data includes receiving a first batch command, the first batch command comprising one or more write operations, and adding one or more entries to a new log file by performing the one or more write operations. The method further includes identifying one or more active entries from one or more previous log files, appending the identified one or more active entries to the new log ...