ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,375, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to BanQu Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Defining and managing forms in a distributed ledger trust network" was invented by Stanislav S. Natalenko (Kharkov, Ukraine), Jeffrey A. Keiser (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Ashish Gadnis (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms to customize forms in a distributed ledger trust network ("DLTN"). A given user can specify metadata that defines a form to be completed by other users, where the metadata that defines the form is stored in a blockchain. The given user can set permissions for the form, so as to control access to the form, and assign the form to...