Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Method And System For Securing Personal Identifiable Information (PII) In Blockchain' Filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited

MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202421078645 A) filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Maharashtra, on Oct. 16, 2024, for 'method and system for securing personal identifiable information (pii) in blockchain.'

Inventor(s) include Jeremiah, Namitha; Seshadri, Ashok; and Bhattacharjee, Saptarshee.

The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Current approaches allow storage of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) data on blockchain, however the user will not be allowed to delete any data from blockchain because of data immutability. As a result, even if the user doe...