ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,454, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Digital asset platform with HSM verification" was invented by Takuya Nakaike (Yokohama, Japan), Moriyoshi Ohara (Yokohama, Japan), Christopher S. Smith (Boeblingen, Germany), Angel Nunez Mencias (Stuttgart, Germany) and Peter James De Meo (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of storing one or more public keys of one or more policy services, receiving, via a signing service, a blockchain transaction that has content that has been verified by a policy service and includes a signature created b...