US Patent Issued to Digital Currency Institute, The People's Bank of China on April 14 for "Method and apparatus for generating random number in blockchain" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,760, issued on April 14, was assigned to Digital Currency Institute, The People's Bank of China (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for generating random number in blockchain" was invented by Changchun Mu (Beijing), Gang Di (Beijing), Youcai Qian (Beijing), Qingjie Chen (Beijing) and Jinzhao Du (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a random number in a blockchain, wherein the method includes: a first random number and a first digest value of the first random number are locally generated by a first node in a blockchain; the first node submits the first digest value to a smart contract...