US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for adding trusted blocks to distributed ledgers" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,343, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for adding trusted blocks to distributed ledgers" was invented by Benjamin D. Ethington (Sapulpa, Okla.) and Soon Fatt Hoo (Tahlequah, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a device that may communicate data associated with the device. The data may include an authentication key generated via a circuit configured to generate the authentication key based on a presence of a signal. The system may also include a sensor device that may output the signal to the device based on a determination of tamp...