US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on March 31 for "Technique for computing a block in a blockchain network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,929, issued on March 31, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Technique for computing a block in a blockchain network" was invented by Oscar Punal (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Mohammad Hossein Jafari (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for controlling participation of a miner in a computation of a block for a message to be added to a blockchain in a blockchain network is disclosed, wherein the miner is assigned to a cluster comprising a set of miners of the blockchain network, and wherein the message is sent from an originating node to a destination node in the blockchain networ...