ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,987, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Computer implemented system and method for storing data on a blockchain" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London), Jack Owen Davies (London), Chloe Ceren Tartan (London) and Owen Vaughan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of storing data on a blockchain, such as the bitcoin blockchain, is disclosed. The method comprises generating a blockchain transaction having at least one first input and/or at least one first output containing first data (greater thanContent 1less than) to be stored on the blockchain, and at least one second input and/o...