US Patent Issued to Ava Labs on March 31 for "Compaction-less database for storing blockchain state" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,566, issued on March 31, was assigned to Ava Labs Inc. (New York).

"Compaction-less database for storing blockchain state" was invented by Ronald Dana Kuris (San Francisco), Daniel Laine (Jersey City, N.Y.), 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: "Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for implementing a compaction-less database structure. Various aspects may include identifying nodes in a most recent revision of a database structure stored on disk corresponding to locations of node changes in a curre...