US Patent Issued to Christopher Lyndon Higgins on Aug. 11 for "Distributed ledger systems, methods and devices" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,607, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Christopher Lyndon Higgins (Noosa Heads, Australia).

"Distributed ledger systems, methods and devices" was invented by Christopher Lyndon Higgins (Noosa Heads, Australia), Nicholas David Beaugeard (New South Wales, Australia) and Lyndon Hamilton Higgins (New South Wales, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed ledger system configured to create, update and maintain at least one blockchain indicative of transactions performed by a network of users of the system, the system comprising a network of computing devices including a network of user nodes in communication with one another...