ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,360, issued on May 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Blockchain ledger rollback" was invented by Krishnasuri Narayanam (Bangalore, India), Vinayaka Pandit (Bangalore, India), Sandeep Nishad (Bangalore, India), Venkatraman Ramakrishna (Bangalore, India) and Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy (Erode, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A group of transactions to be rolled back in a blockchain ledger can be identified. Whether the transactions in the group are eligible to be rolled back together can be determined. Other transactions can be recommended, and the other transactions may be added to the group ...