US Patent Issued to Egnyte on May 27 for "Systems and methods for blockchain-based cloud storage document integrity" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,244, issued on May 27, was assigned to Egnyte Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for blockchain-based cloud storage document integrity" was invented by Chirag Jakharia (Mumbai, India), Umang Bhate (Pune, India) and Sachin Shetty (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to the protection and verification of documents. In some embodiments, this is achieved by generating checksum data describing a document and storing that and a time stamp on a publicly available blockchain. By recording a checksum of a document on a blockchain, the disclosed systems and methods may be used later to validate...