US Patent Issued to Micro Focus on Aug. 11 for "Audit chain for hashes using tokenization" (Idaho, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,763, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Audit chain for hashes using tokenization" was invented by Douglas Max Grover (Rigby, Idaho) and Michael F. Angelo (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first hash of a record is retrieved. The first hash is tokenized by storing the first hash in a tokenization table that has a corresponding hash token. A request is received to validate the record. The request to validate the record comprises a second hash of the record and a second hash token. In response to receiving the request to validate the record, the record is validated by looking up the first...