ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,980, issued on March 18, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).
"Distributed work data management" was invented by Walter Miller (Glen Allen, Va.), Robert Martin (Glen Allen, Va.) and Bradley Smith (Mechanicsville, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive, from a user device, a transaction request associated with a first entity and identify a distributed ledger associated with the first entity, the distributed ledger including a set of blocks recording work data associated with the first entity. The set of blocks may include: a first subset of blocks including data specifying work performed by the fir...