ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,639, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DTCC DIGITAL (US) INC. (Jersey City, N.J.).

"Method, system, and computer-readable medium for secured multi-lateral data exchange over a computer network" was invented by George Daniel Doney (Riva, Md.), Ihor Yermakov (Arlington, Va.) and Manuel Rensink (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for secured, multi-lateral, assured data transfer over a computer network for the assured exchange of data between counterparties related to qualifying transactions, the method being accomplished by a distributed computing system including a distributed ledger ...