ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,507, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Future asset reclamation via blockchain" was invented by Yacov Manevich (Haifa, Israel), Artem Barger (Haifa, Israel), Nitin Gaur (Roundrock, Texas) and Petr Novotny (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of transmitting a user identifier to a plurality of blockchain peers of a blockchain network, receiving a plurality of public keys from the plurality of blockchain peers, receiving a plurality of ciphertexts from the plurality of blockchain peers generated based on the user identifier...