ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,853, issued on June 23, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).
"Systems and methods for verifying manufacturing workflows" was invented by Juan Carlos Flores Perez (The Woodlands, Texas), Mikhail Gladkikh (Conroe, Texas) and Muhammad Faisal Iqbal (Richmond, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods may involve maintaining a first secure, distributed transaction ledger including a digital inventory of product designs for industrial products. A second secure, distributed transaction ledger including a digital record of an entity's physical inventory of industrial products may be maintained. The second secure...