Japanese tech giant Sony has applied for 2 patents with the united states Patent and Trademark office that indicate that the organization is functioning on hardware specifically for maintaining blockchain.

The two patent applications titled “Device and System” and “Electronic Node and method for maintaining a Distributed Ledger” depict gadgets and frameworks which could be utilized maintain a ledger.

The first application provides “an electronic device for maintaining a distributed ledger…comprising electronic equipment designed to perform a mining method of a block to be added to the distributed ledger, whereby the mining method includes compressing information of the block to be added to the distributed ledger.”

The patent application additionally stresses a second facet that provides a technique for maintaining a distributed ledger.

The second patent pertains “to a device for accessing a distributed ledger and a system for maintaining a distributed ledger.” the twin aspects of the patent are almost like the primary patent—one for the device for accessing distributed ledger and also the other defines the system for maintaining it.

Sony has been filing patent applications within the past for the utilization of the blockchain technology. an application filed in Gregorian calendar month last year sought-after to get a patent to be used of blockchain in education field wherever it can be “used to store data like education experiences, certificates so on of a user.”

Another application wanted to get a patent for a user login system for blockchain systems.

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