ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,913, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Versioned connectors for data ingestion from distributed ledger systems" was invented by Antoine Toulme (San Jose, Calif.), Melanie Marsollier (San Francisco), Nathaniel Gerard McKervey (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Ryan Russell Moore (St. Augustine, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for ingesting data from distributed ledger systems. To ingest data from the distributed ledger systems, all or a portion of the distributed ledger systems can be assigned a connector. One or more connectors can be initialized for a particular distributed le...