ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,788, issued on July 29, was assigned to HKT Services Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), PCCW Global Inc. (Herndon, Va.) and PCCW Global (Australia) Pty Ltd. (Sydney).

"Distributed ledger inventory management" was invented by Marc Halbfinger (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Ioannis Giokas (New York), Dave Haitao Xiong (Brisbane, Australia), Jordan Moeser (Brisbane, Australia) and Lawrence Chee Boon Lim (Brisbane, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inventory management systems, computer-implemented methods and computer readable mediums, for use in managing resources are disclosed. The method includes receiving a resource request, from a user, i...