US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Nov. 4 for "Apparatus and method for electing committee node in blockchain" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,839, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for electing committee node in blockchain" was invented by Jong-Choul Yim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin-Tae Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Young-Chang Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chang-Hyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an apparatus and method for electing a committee node in a blockchain. The apparatus for electing a committee node in a blockchain is configured to transmit a staking transaction including validator information to a blockchain system to register...