ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,515, issued on May 12, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for cross-blockchain access and orchestration" was invented by Ahmed A. Khan (Plano, Texas), Nityanand Sharma (Tampa, Fla.) and Mohammed Alsadi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may maintain, as a member of a two blockchain networks respective first and second blockchains. The first blockchain may include one or more sets of operations, and the second blockchain may include cross-chain authorization information. The device may identify a request to invoke a particular set of operations included in ...