ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,685, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Codenotary Inc. (Bellaire, Texas).
"Data retention in a cryptographically verifiable immutable database" was invented by Jeronimo Irazabal (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Farhan Ali Khan (Bangalore, India), Dennis Zimmer (Kuessnacht am Rigi, Switzerland) and Moshe Bar (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cryptographically-verifiable immutable database systems and methods for permanently deleting transaction value data from the immutable database system, preserving transaction verification data. Database schema data may be preserved when transaction value data is deleted."
The patent was filed on...