ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,390, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Consensus for a blockchain validation" was invented by Matteo Signorini (Palaiseau, France) and Matteo Pontecorvi (Palaiseau, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a process for a blockchain, BC, consensus verification, comprising steps of receiving a transaction comprising sensor data on an event and a position data of a sender node of a blockchain network, selecting a number of nodes of the blockchain network as validating nodes based on their position data and the position data of the sender node, sending a new block to the blockchai...