US Patent Issued to FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL on March 18 for "Distributed ledger systems and methods for importing, accessing, verifying, and comparing documents" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,981, issued on March 18, was assigned to FIRST AMERICAN FINANCIAL Corp. (Santa Ana, Calif.).

"Distributed ledger systems and methods for importing, accessing, verifying, and comparing documents" was invented by Justin Lischak Earley (Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif.), David H. Blackman (Corona, Calif.) and David Alexander Brown (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations of the disclosure are directed to a method, comprising: retrieving, using a device associated with an entity, a document from a system of record; uploading the document for storage in an off-chain system accessible by entities having access ...