US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Oct. 27 for "Communication protocol using blockchain transactions" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,927, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Communication protocol using blockchain transactions" was invented by Alexander Mackay (London), Chloe Tartan (London), Jad Wahab (London), Antoaneta Serguieva (London) and Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for granting permission to a requestor to join a first network. The first network comprises a set of bridging nodes and a set of devices controllable by one or more of the set of bridging nodes. Each bridging node is also a respective node of a blockchain network. The method is performed by a regi...