US Patent Issued to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute on Sept. 22 for "Network resources log validation methods and pruning mechanisms using blockchain" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,686, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd. (Shatin, Hong Kong).

"Network resources log validation methods and pruning mechanisms using blockchain" was invented by Tak Wing Lam (Yau Tong, Hong Kong), Kei Keung Hung (Quarry Bay, Hong Kong) and Tak Fuk Wong (Kwai Chung, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of reducing size of a blockchain. The method includes the steps of providing a series of data files; generating, at a time interval, a series of processed files based on filtering and/or aggregation of the series of data files; for ea...