US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 22 for "Blockchain enhanced identity access management system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,591, issued on July 22, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Blockchain enhanced identity access management system" was invented by Marek Zidek (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mazen A. Baragaba (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Muhammad S. Aljuaid (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for verifying blockchain transaction. A request is received in a blockchain for a user to use an application. A three-blockchain cluster verification process is performed in response to receiving the request. Verification that the application is authorized is performed...