ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,693, issued on May 5, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"User credential authentication using blockchain and machine learning" was invented by Ashok Kumar (Telangana, India), Narsing Raj (Telangana, India) and Siva Kumar Venkata Lakshmi Sai Devulapalli (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for user credential authentication includes receiving real-time logs from a blockchain network that is configured to perform an authentication process of a user. The real-time logs are normalized and bucketized to generate processed real-time logs, which are stored in a block and are added to a blockchain. T...