US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Dec. 30 for "Block propagation with poisoned transactions in a blockchain network" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,652, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Block propagation with poisoned transactions in a blockchain network" was invented by Steven Patrick Coughlan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for propagating blocks in a blockchain network. At a first mining node, while hashing a first block header of a first candidate block, the first mining node sends, to other mining nodes, a first message specifying transactions and their order in a first ordered set of transactions contained in the first candidate block. To prevent the other nodes from relying on the first mining node havi...