U.S. Patent 11177939 was awarded to NHN CORPORATION on November 16, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain system including a distributed network of a plurality of nodes and a method for achieving an agreement between the plurality of nodes executed by processors of the block chain system.” The first named inventor is Seungjae Lee of Gyeonggi-do, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method may achieve an agreement among a plurality of nodes executed by one or a plurality of processors of a blockchain system including a distributed network of the plurality of nodes. The method may comprise: receiving a candidate block in a N-th round (N is a positive integer) by an arbitrary node among the plurality of nodes able to be promoted to producer nodes having a block generation status at a predetermined time for each round, determining whether the received candidate block is a valid candidate block, determining whether the valid candidate block is an unapproved block, and determining whether to vote for approval of the unapproved block by determining whether the unapproved block is a first received candidate block which is a first received candidate block within the N-th round by the arbitrary node. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 18, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/575309 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11177939. The primary examiner was Mahfuzur Rahman.

NHN CORPORATION, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 195 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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