US Patent Issued to CHINA ACADEMY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY on April 7 for "Consensus method and apparatus, and blockchain system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,091, issued on April 7, was assigned to CHINA ACADEMY OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (Beijing).

"Consensus method and apparatus, and blockchain system" was invented by Jian Jin (Beijing), Jiagui Xie (Beijing), Xufeng Ma (Beijing), Jian Guo (Beijing), Bo Zhang (Beijing) and Xing Wei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a consensus method and device, and a blockchain system. A primary node directly broadcasts a transaction hash list including a hash value of at least one unverified transaction in the system, so that a backup node and the primary node simultaneously verify the at least one unverified trans...