US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Selective proof of existence using ordered, append-only data storage" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,827, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Selective proof of existence using ordered, append-only data storage" was invented by Ricky Charles Rand (London), Paul Clark (London), Alex Woods (London), Jack Owen Davies (London) and Wei Zhang (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer implemented method. The method provides a generation of a proof of existence data structures. The method comprising: (i) receiving a request comprising a data reveal path, the data reveal path referencing a node of interest within an input hierarchical data structure (ii) obtaining the input hi...