US Patent Issued to AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES on June 10 for "Blockchain-enforced data access control" (Canadian, British, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,953, issued on June 10, was assigned to AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Blockchain-enforced data access control" was invented by Gordon Yong Li (San Diego), Xuemin Chen (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Philippe Klein (Jerusalem), Abbas Saadat (Quebec, Canada), Shee-Yen Tan (Walnut, Calif.) and Rui Pedro De Moura Alves Pimenta (Portishead, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that includes receiving a data request from a requesting device requesting data from a data source, looking up, in a blockchain ledger, a transaction corresponding to the data request to validate the data requ...