ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,416, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Jinan University (Guangzhou, China).

"Method and system for atomic, consistent and accountable cross-chain rewriting" was invented by Ming Li (Guangzhou, China), Yongdong Wu (Guangzhou, China), Jian Weng (Guangzhou, China), Jiasi Weng (Guangzhou, China), Jianan Liu (Guangzhou, China), Zhihang Zhou (Guangzhou, China) and Jiahui Lin (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for atomic, consistent and accountable cross-chain rewriting are provided. The method is applicable for a blockchain network comprising a set of correlative blockchains. The method includes: in respo...