US Patent Issued to Avista Development on March 18 for "Data exchange platform enabled by blockchain and cloud infrastructure" (Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,030, issued on March 18, was assigned to Avista Development Inc. (Spokane, Wash.).

"Data exchange platform enabled by blockchain and cloud infrastructure" was invented by Jonathan Scott Thompson (Spokane, Wash.), Curtis Allen Kirkeby (Spokane, Wash.) and John Zachary Gibson (Post Falls, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud enabled data exchange platform configured to accept sensed information from publishers and allows downloading of sensed information by subscribers. The platform may utilize a blockchain to verify sensed information without sharing private information, act as a transaction ledger, or provide an interface fo...