ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,066, issued on April 7, was assigned to Inveniam Capital Partners Inc. (New York).

"Federated data room server and method for use in blockchain environments" was invented by Richard Gates Bunker Jr. (Jenkintown, Pa.), Patrick D. O'Meara (Northville, Mich.), Christos Alkiviadis Polyzois (Bloomington, Minn.) and Paul Snow (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A federated-data-room server manages information about a collection of electronic documents residing elsewhere (under different organizational/customer control). The server can anchor documents to a blockchain, record usage history of each document, and provide access to t...