ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,453, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Controlling method, device, and recording medium" was invented by Naohisa Nishida (Osaka, Japan) and Yuji Unagami (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlling method is executed by one device among a plurality of devices each including a distributed ledger in an illicit transaction reporting system that reports an illicit transaction in electronic transactions, and the controlling method includes obtaining report transaction data that includes report information indicating a report that one transaction is su...