ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,533, issued on June 3, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for distributed consensus in dynamic byzantine fraction environment" was invented by Changhyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jintae Oh (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for distributed consensus in an environment in which a fraction of Byzantine nodes is dynamically changed. The distributed consensus apparatus in a dynamic Byzantine fraction environment includes one or more processor and executable memory for storing at least one prog...