ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,624, issued on March 4, was assigned to NAGRAVISION SARL (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Blockchain managed access system" was invented by Romain Jufer (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Cristian Ruiz (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland) and Olivier Morel (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to data access control solutions. In particular, techniques are provided to implement a secure and distributed file storage scheme and in particular, a managed access system using a blockchain. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes operation...