U.S. Patent 11063746 was awarded to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on July 13, 2021 and is entitled “Method for selecting consensus node using nonce and method and apparatus for generating blockchain using the same.” The first named inventor is Joon Young Park of Seoul, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed herein is a method for generating a blockchain, which includes selecting, by a first master node that generated a first block, second candidate nodes from a node pool according to a consensus node selection scheme using a nonce, and selecting, by the first master node, a second master node using the result of a vote taken by first candidate nodes. Here, among candidate blocks generated by the second candidate nodes, the candidate block generated by the second master node is locked as a second block. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 19, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/389620 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11063746. The primary examiner was Badri Narayanan Champakesean.

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 9453 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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