ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,958, issued on May 20, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).
"Secure application development using distributed ledgers" was invented by Hiranmayi Palanki (Tampa, Fla.) and Upendra Sharadchandra Mardikar (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various systems and methods for using distributed ledgers to assist in securely developing applications. One such method comprises requesting a validation service to determine if an application component is permitted to be deployed within a software application, wherein a use indicator is provided with the request to the validatio...