US Patent Issued to RICOH on Aug. 18 for "Node and method for sharing data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,278, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Node and method for sharing data" was invented by Hitoshi Namiki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node on a blockchain network, includes: a memory that stores asset related data including information on an owner of an asset, and contract related data including a transaction price of the asset or a ratio corresponding to the price of the asset; and circuitry to transmit the asset related data and the contract related data to one or more other nodes on the blockchain network to share the asset related data and the contract related data."

The patent w...