US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Synchronising event streams" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,666, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Synchronising event streams" was invented by Andrew James Mee (London) and Ricky Charles Rand (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes methods, devices and systems for synchronising a plurality of event streams using an atomic blockchain transaction, the transaction having multiple inputs, each spending a dust output of a previous transaction for a respective event stream among the plurality, each input having an unspent dust output and a data payload."

The patent was filed on Feb. 15, 2021, under Application No. 17/800,858...