ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,802, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for distributed ledger-based auditing" was invented by Manuj Bawa (Clarksburg, Md.) and John S. Combs (Fallston, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trusted node in a distributed ledger audit system may identify first audit event data for a first audit event from a first computing resource on a messaging bus; generate a first hash of a subset of the first audit event data; write the first audit event data to a storage location; create a first block comprising a subset of the first audit event data and a header comprising the first hash; a...