ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,163, issued on June 16, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Intelligent method to prevent duplicate event processing using a distributed ledger" was invented by Andya Madhavi Latha (Hyderabad, India), Saravanan Balasubramanian (Chennai, India), Arjun Raj Besam (Hastinapuram, India), Jayakumar Manokaran (Chennai, India), Dhanshree Belkhade (Sukharali, India) and Vijay Kumar Bathula (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for preventing duplicate event processing are provided. A computing platform may train a machine learning engine to determine whether to post an event to a corresponding use...