ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,467, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Convida Wireless LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Interworking between IoT service layer systems and distributed ledger systems" was invented by Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.), Xu Li (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Lu Liu (Conshohocken, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed ledger interworking architecture is described wherein a distributed ledger proxy interfaces with IoT service layer systems and distributed ledger systems. Service layer nodes may interact with the distributed ledger proxy to leverage functions provided by distributed ledger systems, such as to reques...