ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,109, issued on July 8, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"Deploying a cloud-based system using a distributed ledger" was invented by Michael Concannon (New York), Andras L. Ferenczi (Peoria, Ariz.) and Mohammad N. Nauman (Peioria, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for the deployment of an application programming interface to cloud-based systems using a distributed ledger are disclosed. The system may include a cloud provider system and a distributed ledger. The cloud provider system may be configured to deploy cloud-based systems and/or APIs to enable one or more p...