US Patent Issued to NEC on June 17 for "Method and distributed ledger system for supporting sharing of digital health data of travelers in a travel environment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,419, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and distributed ledger system for supporting sharing of digital health data of travelers in a travel environment" was invented by Sebastien Andreina (Heidelberg, Germany), Rahul Bobba (Heidelberg, Germany) and Ghassan Karame (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sharing of digital health data in a travel environment is provided. Traveler's identities are managed using a distributed ledger system, that includes a global identity blockchain, security blockchains, and a health blockchain. The method comprises sending a request for predetermined...