Tencent receives patent for blockchain-based missing persons poster
The simple patent idea took three years to be granted regulatory clearance. According to local news outlet 36kr.com, Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent recently received a novel patent for a blockchain-based missing person's poster. The patent took nearly three years to be awarded from the date of its first submission in December 2019.The patent consists of a data generation request upon user submission that a person has gone missing. The proposal is then unveiled publicly on the blockchain for verification. Once a consensus has been reached regarding the request, it is then stored in....
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