ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,724, issued on May 13, was assigned to ALTR Solutions Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Using a tree structure to segment and distribute records across one or more decentralized, acyclic graphs of cryptographic hash pointers" was invented by Christopher Edward Struttmann (Indialantic, Fla.) and James Douglas Beecham (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process including: receiving, with one or more processors, a first request to store a record from a computing entity; encoding, with one or more processors, the record in a first plurality of segments; arranging, with one or more processors, the first plurality of segments ...