US Patent Issued to Hedera Hashgraph on Dec. 2 for "Methods and apparatus for a distributed database within a network" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,990, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Hedera Hashgraph LLC (Las Vegas).

"Methods and apparatus for a distributed database within a network" was invented by Leemon C. Baird III (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an instance of a distributed database at a first compute device configured to be included within a set of compute devices that implement the distributed database. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to define a first event linked to a first set of events. The processor is configured to receive, from a second compute device from the set of compute devices,...