ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,476, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Netskrt Systems Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).
"Immutable ledger method and apparatus for managing the distribution of content" was invented by Siegfried Luft (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a plurality of peer caches associated with a corresponding plurality of content owners; shared ledger logic having a channel for each content owner of a plurality of content owners, the shared ledger logic to maintain a shared ledger data structure and to perform the operations of: in response to receipt of a first content title, responsively recording a first ledger entry...