US Patent Issued to Intertrust Technologies on May 20 for "Cryptographic systems and methods using distributed ledgers" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,261, issued on May 20, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Cryptographic systems and methods using distributed ledgers" was invented by Caleb Levy (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to, among other things, systems and methods for facilitating the secure recording of assertions made by entities tied to identities. Embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods may allow users to make non-revocable, difficult to forge, cryptographic assertions tied to their identities through the posting of entries in an immutable ledger. In certain embodiments, a user's cryptographic...