US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Aug. 25 for "Blockchain implemented counting system and method for use in secure voting and distribution" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,893, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Blockchain implemented counting system and method for use in secure voting and distribution" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London) and Stephane Savanah (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event detecting, monitoring and/or counting mechanism is disclosed. The event may be, for example, a vote, decision or selection which is made by a given entity. A counting solution is provided in which a computing resource, running simultaneously and in parallel to a blockchain, manages a loop-based operation. The computing resource continuously monitors t...