ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,532, issued on June 3, was assigned to Innomotics GmbH (Numberg, Germany).

"Methods, devices and system for the security-protected provision of sets of data" was invented by Thomas Jetzfellner (Aschheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ecosystem of devices that autonomously interact with one another by a blockchain is provided, to create a security-protected data processing of sensor data or measurement data for an object by a blockchain infrastructure. Fields of application include supply-chain scenarios or industrial control applications of blockchains."

The patent was filed on Nov. 18, 2019, under Application No. 17/423,...