ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,109, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII) Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Deterministic concurrency control for private blockchains" was invented by Ziliang Lai (Pak Shek Kok, China), Chris Liu (Pak Shek Kok, China) and Eric Lo (Pak Shek Kok, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deterministic concurrency control protocol for a blockchain is described. A set of transactions of the blockchain are received at a node. A simulation step and a commit step are performed to process the transactions. A dependency graph is generated comprising the set of transactions and a set of dependencies betwee...