US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 24 for "Global topics in a distributed ledger to share trust provider information" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,889, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Global topics in a distributed ledger to share trust provider information" was invented by Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.), Trevor Scott Conn (Leander, Texas), Ahmed Khalid (Cork, Ireland) and Mustafa Al-Bado (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed ledger is configured with a global topic whose identifier is publicized and well known. The global topic stores information about trust providers including topic identifiers and smart contract identifiers. Requestors can query the global topic to retrieve the information of specific tr...