ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,376, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Compressible blockchains" was invented by Francis McNamee (Newry, Great Britain), Paula May Tomaszko (Belfast, Great Britain), Andrew Jack Bell (Belfast, Great Britain) and Robert Kerr (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node in a blockchain network may invoke a process comprising receiving one or more operations for inclusion in a block, receiving a previous Merkle root created from previously determined account dispositions from a previous block, resolving the one or more operations based on the previous account dis...