ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,747, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Recursive endorsements for database entries" was invented by Yacov Manevich (Beer Sheva, Israel), Hagar Meir (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Nitin Gaur (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recursive endorsements in a decentralized database minimize validation effort for a smart contract because there are fewer signatures to verify. Collected endorsements required by an endorsement policy are verified and signed by a set of trusted peers representing different organizations, the set of trusted peers being fewer than the number of endorsi...