ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,629, issued on May 5, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Intelligent method to combine multiple blockchain based smart contracts leveraging generative artificial intelligence" was invented by Shailendra Singh (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to using machine learning models to merge smart contracts. A computing system may receive a prompt to merge smart contracts. Based on inputting the prompt into a generative artificial intelligence model configured to parse prompts, smart contract data may be retrieved from a blockchain stored in a distributed ledger platform....