ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,816, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Quantum-compatible blockchain for accountability" was invented by Manu Kurian (Dallas) and Vinesh Patel (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may include contributing to a quantum-resistant blockchain that stores a quantum-resistant audit trail of changes to a dataset. A non-transitory computer readable medium may store instructions that are run on a computer processor to populate a block with a log of a dataset, run a quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithm to encrypt the block, distribute the block to and receive approval from b...