US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 20 for "Contextual integrity preservation" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,601, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Contextual integrity preservation" was invented by Nitin Gaur (Roundrock, Texas), Dulce B. Ponceleon (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ioannis Katsis (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a data processing node, inference data object from a multi-channel data server over a blockchain, sorting, by the data processing node, longitudinal records contained in the inference data object, linking, by the data processing node, transaction outcomes and inferences data from the inference dat...