US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for selective access control for portions of a blockchain" (New Jersey, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,936, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for selective access control for portions of a blockchain" was invented by Ahmed A. Khan (Plano, Texas), Mohammed Alsadi (Redmond, Wash.) and Joel Jimenez (Flemington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may maintain a blockchain that includes a plurality of records, where a particular record of the blockchain includes a set of access policies, and an access policy identifier. The system may receive a request to perform a set of operations, determine that the requested set of operations is as...