ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,930, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for propagating data packets in a network of nodes" was invented by Silvia Bartolucci (London) and Simone Madeo (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are presented for a method of propagating data packets in a network of nodes. The method includes: generating at least one data packet of a first type; collecting a set of first data packets of the first type during a first time period the set including at least one data packet received from one or more other nodes in the network; arbitrarily selecting a subset of entry nodes...