US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on Oct. 20 for "Blockchain-based key generation method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,536, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Blockchain-based key generation method and apparatus" was invented by Dan Xu (Shenzhen, China), Kun Wu (Shenzhen, China), Neng Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Yongxin Yao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a blockchain-based key generation method and apparatus. The method includes: generating a first proposal request, the first proposal request comprising key generation information and a negotiation node list; broadcasting the first proposal request to each of the consensus nodes in the blockchain such...