ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,740, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON (New York).

"Methods and systems for improving hardware resiliency during serial processing tasks in distributed computer networks" was invented by Sanjay Kumar Stribady (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Saket Sharma (Edison, N.J.) and Gursel Taskale (Manhasset, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system uses the non-repudiatory persistence of blockchain technology to store all task statuses and results across the distributed computer network in an immutable blockchain database. Coupled with the resiliency of the stored data, the system may determine a sequence of proce...