US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on Sept. 8 for "Method for digital currency intra-chain and cross-chain off-chain swaps based on trusted hardware" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,133, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Method for digital currency intra-chain and cross-chain off-chain swaps based on trusted hardware" was invented by Jian Liu (Hangzhou, China), Di Wu (Hangzhou, China), Kui Ren (Hangzhou, China) and Wu Wen (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital currency intra-chain and cross-chain off-chain swap method based on trusted hardware. An initiator sends a swap message containing a public-private key pair to be swapped by a initiator to a responder, and deletes the public-private key pair to be swapped by the initiator; after receiving the swap...