ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,489, issued on March 24, was assigned to Citibank N.A..

"Knowledge registry for agentic artificial intelligence models stored on a distributed network" was invented by Vishal Mysore (Mississauga, Canada), Prithvi Narayana Rao (Allen, Texas), Payal Jain (London), Sawyer Uzzell (New York), Joao Paulo De Castro Marchese (Miami) and James Myers (Clearwater, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein automatically register, monitor, and authenticate distributed artificial intelligence (AI) agents and their operational contexts using a distributed or federated ledger-based agent knowledge registry. The system...