ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,240, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to EDJX Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Systems and methods for data integrity and authentication in a content-addressable peer-to-peer storage network" was invented by James A. Thomason (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a data protocol providing notarization of a data between two or more nodes on a content-addressable peer-to-peer storage network. A node generates a new data block, which is witnessed by peer nodes to increase the integrity of the data. Each peer node responds to the node's signature request with an encoded digital signature of the data using a private ke...