US Patent Issued to The University of Akron on April 8 for "Blockchain-powered cloud management system" (Ohio, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,458, issued on April 8, was assigned to The University of Akron (Akron, Ohio).

"Blockchain-powered cloud management system" was invented by Jin Kocsis (Lafayette, Ind.) and Mututhanthrige Pravenn Sameera Fernando (Akron, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, the present invention relates to a blockchain-powered SDN-enabled networking infrastructure in which the integration between blockchain-based security and autonomy management layer and multi-controller SDN networking layer is defined to enhance the integrity of the control and management messages. In one or more embodiments, this networking infrastructure is...