ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,925, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Communication network node, method, and mobile terminal" was invented by Hideji Wakabayashi (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a communication network node for providing data to a distributed ledger, wherein the node has circuitry configured to provide a special condition for a smart contract, and verify whether the special condition is met."

The patent was filed on Jan. 22, 2020, under Application No. 17/423,126.

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