US Patent Issued to The United States of America, represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Sept. 9 for "Approval-based distributed ledger system for ensuring integrity of digital manufacturing threads and technical data packages" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,431, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The United States of America, represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Approval-based distributed ledger system for ensuring integrity of digital manufacturing threads and technical data packages" was invented by Scott Ziv (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Michael Ziv (Spotsylvania, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments provide a distributed ledger system that may comprise a ledger network configured to have various entry sequences, wherein a sequence is associated with an element intended for manufacturing and an entry in the sequence is associated with an element file...