ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,130, issued on March 17, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Blockchain database management system" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London) and Brock Gilles Doiron (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the present disclosure proposes methods, devices and systems and devices for providing a new structured data pertaining to blockchain transactions to implement a new data structure. This new data structure is provided to implement a distributed database. In another aspect, a new distributed data management system (DBMS) is provided, that can manage data associated with the new data structure. ...