US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Nov. 3 for "Distributed ledgers for enhanced machine-to-machine trust" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,978, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Distributed ledgers for enhanced machine-to-machine trust" was invented by Ali Tekeoglu (Columbia, Md.), Cameron R. Hickert (Somerville, Mass.), Joseph M. Maurio (Westminster, Md.) and Tamim I. Sookoor (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing machine-to-machine (M2M) trust using a distributed ledger. This trust may apply to the Internet of Things (IoT) and/or smart cities contexts. To provide M2M trust, a first computing node may generate a trust score for a ...