ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,416, issued on July 1, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Method and system for verifying integrity of a digital asset using a distributed hash table and a peer to-peer distributed ledger" was invented by Craig Steven Wright (London) and Stephane Savanah (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (900) and system (1) for verifying the integrity of a computer software for installation using a distributed hash table (13) and a peer-to-peer distributed ledger (14). This may be the Bitcoin blockchain or an alternative implementation. The method includes determining (910) a metadata associate...