US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Computer-implemented methods and systems for improved communications across a blockchain network" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,104, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Computer-implemented methods and systems for improved communications across a blockchain network" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and techniques are provided that employ multicast transmission and anycast transmission to coordinate and distribute tasks and/or processing requests amongst groups of resources on a network. In one embodiment, the groups of resources can include nodes or other resources of a blockchain network that implement all or part of a particular blockchain protocol (e.g., Bitcoin SV prot...