US Patent Issued to Bank of America on March 31 for "Blockchain-based source identifier" (California, Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,889, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Blockchain-based source identifier" was invented by Manu Kurian (Dallas), Kevin A. Delson (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Maharaj Mukherjee (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for using a digital replication of a series transaction blockchain to identify web resource sources associated with a given transaction. Transactions may include web resources. The web resources may be sourced to web sources. The digital replication may enable tracing and mapping of web resources to their corresponding web sources. Using the digital mapping o...