ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,559, issued on April 15, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"High performance distributed system of record with confidence-based consensus" was invented by David C. Carver (Lexington, Mass.), Leen K. Al Shenibr (Brookline, Mass.), Samuel Delaughter (Cambridge, Mass.), Samuel Erb (Somerville, Mass.), Vladimir Shtokman (Newton, Mass.), Patrick A Deegan (New York) and Thomas Houman (Beverly, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and effi...