US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on May 12 for "Blockchain folding" (Pennsylvania, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,670, issued on May 12, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Blockchain folding" was invented by Asad Haque (Chesterbrook, Pa.) and Nancy Davoust (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active distributed ledger may comprise an indication of an inactive permission associated with a user device. An entry comprising such indication added to another distributed ledger that is supplemental to the active distributed ledger. An updated active distributed ledger may be generated that does not comprise the indication of the inactive permission. The updated active distributed ledger may comprise an indi...