US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for fast synchronization and startup of new blockchain node" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,092, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for fast synchronization and startup of new blockchain node" was invented by Ahmed A. Khan (Plano, Texas) and Mohammed Alsadi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may maintain a local copy of a particular blockchain that is associated with a plurality of nodes of a blockchain network. Each node of the plurality of nodes may maintain a respective local copy of the particular blockchain. The system may maintain world state information associated with the particular blockchain; receive...