ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,356, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. (New York).

"Multi-ledger framework for trust over IP data exchange" was invented by Ajay B. Maddukuri (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating a multi-ledger framework in a trust over internet protocol (TOIP) environment. A listing of ledgers can be maintained by a ledger registry. Entities in the TOIP environment can retrieve a listing of ledgers and cache the contents of the ledgers so that the contents can be accessed if a particular ledger is inaccessible."

The patent was filed on July 26, ...