US Patent Issued to Cornell University on April 7 for "Authenticated data feed for blockchains" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,020, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Authenticated data feed for blockchains" was invented by Fan Zhang (New York), Ethan Cecchetti (Ithaca, N.Y.), Kyle Croman (Sudbury, Mass.), Ari Juels (New York) and Runting Shi (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform having at least one processing device. The processing platform implements a trusted bridge configured for at least temporary coupling between one or more data sources and a smart contract program of a blockchain. The trusted bridge comprises a secure enclave component and a rela...