US Patent Issued to British Telecommunications on March 3 for "Distributed transactional database consensus" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,751, issued on March 3, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"Distributed transactional database consensus" was invented by Jonathan Roscoe (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of consensus for a distributed transactional database having a logical chain of blocks of stored data is disclosed. Each, block can identify a relationship to a preceding block such that a most recently added block is a current state of the database, and the database stores data relating to a system in execution having associated a measurable characteristic capable of improvement. Each, block of the database can store a specifica...