ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,399, issued on July 15, was assigned to STRONG FORCE VCN PORTFOLIO 2019 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Distributed-ledger-based manufacturing for value chain networks" was invented by Charles Howard Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Brent Bliven (Austin, Texas), Kunal Sharma (Mumbai, India) and Teymour S. El-Tahry (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed manufacturing network includes a distributed ledger system and an artificial intelligence system. The distributed ledger system is integrated with digital threads of a set of distributed manufacturing network entities for storing information on event, activities and transactions r...