ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,339, issued on April 21, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for managing images in a decentralized file system based on image metadata in a blockchain" was invented by Saurabh Gupta (New Delhi), Amit Bhandari (Uttarakhand, India), Neetu Kalra (Haryana, India), Angel . (Himachal Pradesh, India) and Riya Sharma (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to manage images that are representative of network data packets in a decentralized file system based on image metadata stored in a blockchain network is disclosed. The system accesses an image that is generated based on data ...