US Patent Issued to Orange on Jan. 20 for "Method for managing a local ledger of a node belonging to a set of nodes contributing to a distributed ledger" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,876, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for managing a local ledger of a node belonging to a set of nodes contributing to a distributed ledger" was invented by Vincent Messie (Chatillon, France), Benoit Radier (Chatillon, France), Gael Fromentoux (Chatillon, France) and Arnaud Braud (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In known implementations of distributed ledgers, all of the transactions linked to a service are archived in nodes involved in the implementation of the service. This makes it possible to verify the authenticity and the integrity of the transactions and to ensu...