US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Blockchain data breach security and cyberattack prevention" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,579, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Blockchain data breach security and cyberattack prevention" was invented by Yacov Manevich (Beer Sheva, Israel), Artem Barger (Haifa, Israel), Nitin Gaur (Round Rock, Texas) and Petr Novotny (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer programming products leveraging the use of machine learning, cryptographic keys and blockchain technology for validating blockchain transactions. The disclosed systems, methods and products improve detection of malicious cyberattacks and fraud, while reducing occurrences of...