US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on May 12 for "Collaborative transaction notarization in a Byzantine computing environment" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,231, issued on May 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Collaborative transaction notarization in a Byzantine computing environment" was invented by Mohammad Sadoghi Hamedani (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collaboration of miners cooperatively notarizes transactions to be added to a distributed ledger. A solution space is identified for notarizing the transactions, such as an integer space that may contain a nonce that, when hashed with the transactions or block, yields a hash value that satisfies specified criteria. The solution space is apportioned so that each miner ha...