ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,346, issued on July 14, was assigned to Pacmodo Inc. (Portland, Ore.).
"Encoding data structures as bit pattern representations in smart contracts" was invented by David Ngene (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for storing bit pattern representations of a data structure in a smart contract and performing algorithm identifying operations using the bit pattern representations are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a data structure is encoded as a bit pattern representation using a predefined schema. A storage operation may then be performed to store the bit pattern representation and a schema identif...