ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,170, issued on June 16, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for a weighted slotted synchronous blockchain client network" was invented by Aditya Ahuja (Pune, India), Vigneswaran Ramachandran (Chennai, India), Rajan Mindigal Alasingara Bhattachar (Bangalore, India) and Sachin Premsukh Lodha (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides weight based slotted synchronous blockchain client network. Conventional blockchain consensus protocols heavily rely on synchrony assumptions of the underlying network. However, little attention has so far been given to similar...