ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,404, issued on July 8, was assigned to SPACE AND TIME LABS INC. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for facilitating provable data integrity for data stores" was invented by Jay Thomas White (Lexington, Ky.) and Scott Edward Daly Dykstra (Fort Myers, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and transaction nodes are disclosed that update a cryptographic commitment to a data blob (e.g., Structured Query Language (SQL) database table or block of transactions) with respect to data to be inserted into the data blob and ingested via communication network(s) from a data source. The update...