ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,795, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Registration terminal, holder terminal, method, and program" was invented by Shigenori Ohashi (Musashino, Japan), Atsushi Nakadaira (Musashino, Japan), Shigeru Fujimura (Musashino, Japan), Keita Suzuki (Musashino, Japan) and Honoka Toda (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A registration terminal according to an embodiment is a registration terminal connectable to a distributed ledger network, and includes a first generation unit that generates a private key for an identifier used for generation of an identifier of a file and a public key for an identifier used fo...