ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,906, issued on June 24, was assigned to Inveniam Capital Partners Inc. (New York).

"Validating authenticity of electronic documents shared via computer networks" was invented by Brian Deery (Austin, Texas), Paul Snow (Austin, Texas) and Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication of electronic document is based on multiple digital signatures incorporated into a blockchain. Structured data, metadata, and instructions may be hashed to generate the multiple digital signatures for distribution via the blockchain. Any peer receiving the blockchain may then verify an authenticity of an electronic ...