ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,302, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Blockchain twin architecture for secure management of multi-cloud computing environment" was invented by Shibi Panikkar (Bangalore, India) and Thirumaleshwara Adyanadka Shama (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for management of a multi-cloud computing environment are disclosed. For example, a method comprises the following steps. A node is configured to participate in a distributed ledger protocol with one or more other nodes. The node is further configured to maintain, in conjunction with the one or more other nodes, a data structure ...