ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,014, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Shareable and nested transactions on hash chains" was invented by Glenn Carter Scott (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Michael Richard Gabriel (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using shareable and nested transactions on hash chains includes appending a data block of a transaction of a first hash chain to a second hash chain. The second hash chain originates from a tail block of the first hash chain. The method further includes removing the data block from the transaction by setting a tail block identifier of the second hash chain to ...