ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,797, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"System and node using blockchain technology for sending ledger information between groups of ledgers" was invented by Yoshihiro Takahashi (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroyuki Yamashita (Fuchu, Japan), Satoko Ishihara (Yokohama, Japan), Haeseung Jung (Yokohama, Japan), Hideo Nishiuchi (Yokohama, Japan) and Masashi Fujisawa (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system using blockchain technology includes a plurality of nodes forming a network having a hierarchical structure and each managing a ledger. Each of the plurality of nodes is located, based on a performa...