US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on May 5 for "Layered network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,363, issued on May 5, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Layered network" was invented by Owen Vaughan (London), Jack Owen Davies (London) and Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for connecting to a layered network. The layered network comprises a plurality of nodes arranged in an ordered set of layers. The ordered set of layers comprises, in order, a core layer comprising a set of core nodes, a second layer comprising a set of second nodes, and one or more outer layers each comprising a respective set of outer nodes. Each core node is connected to at least one ...