US Patent Issued to NCHAIN LICENSING on April 21 for "Partitioning a blockchain network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,824, issued on April 21, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Partitioning a blockchain network" was invented by Dean Kramer (London), Martin Sewell (London) and Bassem Ammar (Lancaster, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of partitioning a blockchain network into shards is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of identifying a transaction id of a blockchain transaction and allocating the transaction to a shard based on the transaction id."

The patent was filed on Nov. 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/388,498.

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