ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,384, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Change Healthcare Holdings LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Cross-entity load balancing using a distributed ledger" was invented by Andras L. Ferenczi (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing cross-entity load balancing operations using a distributed ledger are provided herein. An example method may include, in response to receiving a valid invocation from a first entity, and based at least in part on data associated with the valid invocation, identifying a target entity from a plurality of candidate entities."

The patent was filed on Nov. 23, 2022, under Ap...