US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on June 23 for "Multi-input transactions" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,545, issued on June 23, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Multi-input transactions" was invented by Wei Zhang (London), Jack Davies (London) and Craig Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server of media content makes a first transaction available to users that includes a first output specifying an amount of a digital asset to transfer to a second party, and a total of zero or more inputs wherein a total input amount of the digital asset specified in any outputs of any source transactions pointed to by the zero or more inputs is less than a total output amount of the digital asset specified by the on...