ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,439, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Inspection system, inspection method, and computer program" was invented by Teruhiro Tagomori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A requester device 12 registers inspection target data in a file server 18. An inspector device 14 operated by an inspector who inspects whether the inspection target data is illegitimate or not acquires, from the file server 18, the inspection target data registered by the requester device 12 and registers an inspection result of the inspection target data in a blockchain network 22. A viewer device 16 acquires, from the bloc...