ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,247, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for observing smart contracts" was invented by Joel Abraham Obstfeld (Bushey, Great Britain), Oliver James Bull (Portishead, Great Britain), Louis Gwyn Samuel (Swindon, Great Britain) and Andrew Pletcher (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques for observing smart contracts. A method can include obtaining, by a digital twin, a first data set from a first smart contract that stores the first data to a first distributed ledger and a second data set from a second smart contract that stores...