ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,015, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Auto-healing for blockchain configuration drifts" was invented by Pushkar Taneja (Hyderabad Telangana, India), Suryanarayana Adivi (Hyderabad Telangana, India), Shailendra Singh (Maharashtra, India) and Jemlin Lucas (Addison, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying configuration drifts in blockchain nodes and remediating the configuration drifts is provided. The method may include monitoring a plurality of nodes to identify a configuration drift to the required node configuration settings. In response to the monitoring, the method ...