US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on July 14 for "Distributed file system for managing permissioned access to records" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,990, issued on July 14, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Distributed file system for managing permissioned access to records" was invented by Sumita T. Jonak (San Antonio), Steven J. Schroeder (Oak Point, Texas), Ashley Raine Philbrick (San Antonio) and Emily Kathleen Krebs (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The distributed file system includes a blockchain node with one or more records recorded in a blockchain of the blockchain node by a series of immutable transactions. More specifically, the blockchain node receives a request to permit access to a record by a service provider. ...