ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,812, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Selectively replicated trustless persistent store" was invented by Ajay Sunderajan Madhavan (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method and system for a selectively replicated trustless persistent store is provided using a bilateral distributed ledger. The selectively replicated trustless persistent store synchronizes current state data stores shared among multiple parties. Data modifications may be made in any shared store locally and then are automatically replicated across other permissioned stores. The selectively r...