US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on May 26 for "Method and system for securing post-quantum blockchains" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,949, issued on May 26, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and system for securing post-quantum blockchains" was invented by Sultan Ahmad Almuhammadi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for transitioning a distributed ledger or blockchain to a post-quantum authorization through a soft fork that avoids interruption or delay of network operation including defining a first activation block height (h1) to initiate the transition and a second activation block height (h2) greater than the first activation block height to complete t...