US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on May 26 for "Blockchain transactions including portions of code in different languages for complex validation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,948, issued on May 26, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Blockchain transactions including portions of code in different languages for complex validation" was invented by Brock Doiron (London) and Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a node of a blockchain network, comprising: accessing the locking script from a first transaction on the blockchain; receiving a second transaction not yet on-chain, the second transaction comprising an unlocking script; extracting from the first transaction or another transaction on the blockchain, a portion of code formulated in a second...