ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,641, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for obfuscating asset transactions in a distributed ledger" was invented by Matthew Keating (Cork, Ireland), Alan Barnett (Bandon, Ireland) and Sean Ahearne (Glanmire, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing transactions in a distributed ledger. The method includes obtaining a transaction request from a client; in response to obtaining the transaction request: verifying client information associated with the client and the transaction request; anonymizing the transaction request...