US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Jan. 13 for "Energy consumption aggregation and tracking per data object based on a blockchain token" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,166, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Energy consumption aggregation and tracking per data object based on a blockchain token" was invented by Xiang Dong Hu (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Timo Kussmaul (Boeblingen, Germany) and Stefan Schmitt (Holzgerlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment registers a node and a data object on a blockchain. The embodiment schedules by a Scheduler an object task associated with the data object in a Data Controller, generating a task execution token by the Data Controller on the blockchain where the task execution token...