ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,278, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DOCUSIGN INC. (San Francisco).

"Audit records monitoring using a blockchain structure" was invented by Ezer Farhi (San Francisco), Peleg Atar (San Francisco), Nataly Beigel (Modiin, Israel), Gal Silverstein (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Michael Mualem (Petah Tikva, Israel), Danielle Filin Horovitz (Hashason, Israel) and Alona Raz (Petach Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centralized auditing system receives an audit block containing one or more audit files generated by an audit agent running in an audited device. The audit block additionally stores a first digital signature correspondi...