ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,273, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Blockchain escrow and auditing service" was invented by Douglas Max Grover (Rigby, Idaho) and Michael F. Angelo (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to authenticate to a Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) is received from a tenant (e.g., a user that is acting on behalf of a corporation). An authentication credential of the tenant associated with the request to authenticate to the BaaS is determined to be valid. In response to determining that the authentication credential of the tenant associated with the request to authenticate to the BaaS is va...