US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Tracing and verifying a shared library using blockchain" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,727, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Tracing and verifying a shared library using blockchain" was invented by Jinwook Jung (Somers, N.Y.), Venkata Sitaramagiridharganesh Ganapavarapu (Elmsford, N.Y.), James Thomas Rayfield (Ridgefield, Conn.), Roman Vaculin (Larchmont, N.Y.) and Gi-Joon Nam (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for managing digital assets is provided. The present invention may include receiving, in a second blockchain network, an authentication request to determine an authenticity of a new digit...