US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 21 for "Incremental verification of tamper-resistant ledger" (Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,531, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Incremental verification of tamper-resistant ledger" was invented by Ramarathnam Venkatesan (Redmond, Wash.), Mariusz H. Jakubowski (Bellevue, Wash.), Kartik Gupta (Seattle), Subhra Bose (Ossining, N.Y.) and Paul Alan Stirpe (Shoreham, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Incremental verification of a tamper-resistant ledger is disclosed herein. Periodic proofs are generated by periodically verifying the integrity of a tamper-resistant ledger. The periodic proofs enable a verifier to incrementally verify the integrity of the tamper-resistant ...