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Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Angelo De Caro, Zürich, CH;

Yacov Manevich, Haifa, IL;

Luca De Feo, Rüschlikon, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3247 (2013.01); G06Q 20/407 (2013.01); H04L 9/0869 (2013.01); H04L 9/3297 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05);
Abstract

An example operation may include one or more of generating a hashed timelock contract (HTLC) of an asset and storing the HTLC in a storage structure, where the HTLC requires proof of a condition by a receiver within a predetermined amount of time for the receiver to unlock the asset, executing, via a processing device, a sequential computation a predetermined number of steps and generating proof of a computational load based on an output of the serial computation, determining that the condition for the client to unlock the HTLC has expired, and transmitting a request for a refund of the asset which comprises the proof of the computational load as proof of elapsed time to the storage structure.


Find Patent Forward Citations

De Caro, Angelo. (2026). Htlc with proof of elapsed time (U.S. Patent No. 12701015). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12701015

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