US Patent Issued to NCHAIN LICENSING on June 23 for "Computer-implemented system and method for implementing alias-based addressing for a distributed ledger" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,540, issued on June 23, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Computer-implemented system and method for implementing alias-based addressing for a distributed ledger" was invented by Andy Mee (Cardiff, Great Britain) and Ryan Dickherber (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of implementing a payment service for one or more clients for transactions associated with a distributed ledger, such as the Bitcoin blockchain. The method comprises providing an alias for a client, associating the alias with a network in a directory and providing a location for a host computing r...