ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,986, issued on March 3, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Performing secure data interactions in a distributed network" was invented by Navdeep Mahajan (Charlotte, N.C.), Darshan Kokkanaghatta Nanjegowda (Charlotte, N.C.), Pavan Chayanam (Alamo, Calif.), Prashanth Kolar (Dublin, Calif.), Srinivas Dundigalla (Waxhaw, N.C.), Arunachalam Packirisamy (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Indradeep Dantuluri (Harrisburg, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of computing nodes that form a blockchain network comprising a first user device of a user and a centralized exchange server that stores a fi...