US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on June 3 for "Framework for privacy-preserving big-data sharing using distributed ledger" (Texas, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,156, issued on June 3, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Framework for privacy-preserving big-data sharing using distributed ledger" was invented by Gang Wang (Stors, Conn.), Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas) and Anthony Amaro Jr. (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a trusted, secure, and immutable record of storage operations executed by a storage center for storing measurement data provided by a process plant, techniques are described for utilizing a distributed ledger. When a data contributor such as a process plant generates measurement data, an encrypted version of a set o...