ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,703, issued on April 14, was assigned to Theta Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Edge computing nodes supported by smart contract enabled blockchain network with on-chain and off-chain solution verification" was invented by Jieyi Long (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mitchell C. Liu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for blockchain and smart contract-supported decentralized computation are provided. A computation task from a task initiator node is registered on a blockchain by invoking a smart contract, and assigned to an edge computing node within a decentralized computing network, with task details sent by...