US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Jan. 20 for "System and method for distributed print job storage and retrieval in conjunction with a blockchain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,158, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"System and method for distributed print job storage and retrieval in conjunction with a blockchain" was invented by William Su (Riverside, Calif.) and Chris Nguyen (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for distributed storage and release of print jobs with a networked fleet of multifunction peripherals (MFSs) employs the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) for document storage with document metadata and document transactions stored on a blockchain housed on nodes formed by the multifunction peripherals. A user sends a print job to ...