US Patent Issued to Justice Technology on Feb. 3 for "Secure authentication of electronic documents via a distributed system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,668, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Justice Technology Ltd. (Calistoga, Calif.).

"Secure authentication of electronic documents via a distributed system" was invented by Ronald DeKoven (Calistoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document authentication system securely saves documents and permits later verification of the authenticity of those documents. When saving a document, the documents are memorialized to tamper-proof private distributed storage, and a token is generated for the document and saved in a private distributed ledger. Any subsequent documents serving to modify the content of the original document, or to att...