Two entities get U.S. patents associated to blockchain and domains.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace granted two patents at present associated to blockchain and domains.
Unstoppable Domains obtained patent quantity 11,558,344 for Resolving blockchain domains (pdf). It describes methods to resolve blockchain domains in a browser.
The corporate utilized for the patent in September 2021 however had filed a provisional patent software in September 2020.
I consider it’s the first patent Unstoppable Domains has secured. It has a pending software for Blockchain registry scaling (pdf).
China Web Community Data Heart (CNNIC), China’s area registry supplier, obtained patent quantity 11,558,343 for Method and apparatus for resolving domain name based on co-governance chain (pdf). It describes a method to resolve domains based mostly on a “co-governance chain” not solely reliant on IANA.
CNNIC filed for the patent in 2020. The group has filed other blockchain patent applications.
