US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Authenticating a system maintenance via a cognitive and blockchain-based process" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,720, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Authenticating a system maintenance via a cognitive and blockchain-based process" was invented by Lamogha Chiazor (Eastleigh, Great Britain) and Paritosh Ranjan (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for dynamically authenticating a performance of a maintenance process via a cognitive and blockchain-based verification technique. Specifically, a person performs a set of maintenance steps as defined by textual summaries stored in a first blockchain. While the person performs the m...