US Patent Issued to Parity Technologies on July 28 for "Methods and systems for a heterogeneous multi-chain framework" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,597, issued on July 28, was assigned to Parity Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Methods and systems for a heterogeneous multi-chain framework" was invented by Gavin Wood (Berlin) and Robert Habermeier (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Present-day blockchain architectures suffer from several problems, including poor extensibility and scalability. This may stem from tying two parts of the consensus architecture, namely canonicality and validity, too closely together. The Polkadot architecture, which is a heterogeneous multi-chain, provides better extensibility and scalability by setting canonicality and validity apart. Compartmentaliz...