US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Aug. 25 for "Distributed ledgers for enhanced chain of custody certification" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,258, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Distributed ledgers for enhanced chain of custody certification" was invented by Edward L. Haletky (Austin, Texas) and Amanda Jane Adams (Flint, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to enhanced chain of custody certification. A computing platform may establish, within a period of time of receiving data, a first distributed ledger that includes the data. The computing platform may receive a request to access the data. The computing platform may compute a first hash of the data indicating a state of the data prior ...