ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,610, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Transaction signature flags" was invented by Katharine Molloy (London), Craig Steven Wright (London) and Owen Vaughan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program for generating an input and an output for a voting transaction for a blockchain for casting a vote, the computer program causes one or more processors to be configured to: receive voting instructions from a vote coordinator comprising one or more public keys and a set of voting options; render a user interface displaying the voting options; receive a user selection of one of the vo...