ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,619, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Random number generation in a blockchain" was invented by Ying Chan (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Dean Kramer (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to distributed ledge technologies such as consensus-based blockchains. Computer-implemented methods for a secure random number generation within blockchain scripts are described. The invention is implemented using a blockchain network, which may be, for example, a Bitcoin blockchain. A third transaction is validated. The third transaction is associated with a third digital asset and in...