ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,881, issued on March 31, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for blockchain service orchestration" was invented by Malini Raman (Chennai, India), Ashok Seshadri (Chennai, India), Namitha Jeremiah (Chennai, India) and Saptarshee Bhattacharjee (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Several factors have contributed to an increased demand for an enterprise blockchain in various industries such as reduced administrative cost, faster transaction processing, reduced likelihood of fraud etc. Several blockchain applications and technologies have emerged, however, there is a need to inter...