US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Aug. 4 for "Sharded merkle tree" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,020, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Sharded merkle tree" was invented by Alexandru Paunoiu (London), Craig Steven Wright (London) and Alexander Graham (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of representing a first set of data items, wherein the method is performed by a first tree generator and comprises: allocating the first set of data items into a plurality of respective subsets; for each respective subset of data items, generating a respective hash tree based on the respective subset of data items, wherein the respective hash tree comprises a respective root ...