US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Feb. 3 for "Storage and consumption of software bill of materials on public blockchain" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,741, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Storage and consumption of software bill of materials on public blockchain" was invented by Nelson Paily Varghese (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a secure and distributed system for storing and consuming software bill of materials (SBOM). The system allows software publishers to create a software component and generate an SBOM that describes its dependencies. A web API then securely stores the SBOM on a distributed file system and publishes a hash of the SBOM to a public blockchain. When the software component is ...