ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,713, issued on March 31, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic generating analytics from blockchain data" was invented by Gennaro A. Cuomo (Durham, N.C.), Donna N. Dillenberger (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Fenno F. Heath III (Woodbridge, Conn.), Rong Liu (Sterling, Va.) and Roman Vaculin (Larchmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain of transactions may be referenced for various purposes and may be later accessed by interested parties for ledger verification and information retrieval. One example method of operation may include identifying a number of data parameters to extract f...