ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,637, issued on July 28, was assigned to CHAINTOPE INC. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Information processing system, information processing method, server, block chain node, and program" was invented by Shigeyuki Azuchi (Iizuka, Japan), Hideki Shoda (Iizuka, Japan), Teruaki Murakami (Iizuka, Japan) and Takanori Tanaka (Iizuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes a server, plural block chain nodes, and plural terminals. Each of the plural block chain nodes reads from a block chain each first transaction data that is past transaction data linked to a second transaction data broadcast by the server. Each o...