ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,606, issued on July 29, was assigned to TRUIST BANK (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Access layer systems of peer data processing nodes providing a security framework and trust controls" was invented by Lekha A. Banerjee (Charlotte, N.C.), Thomas S. Dickson (Overland Park, Kan.), Randhir Bhan (Sharon, Mass.) and Srinivasan Ramanujam (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strategic master data management blockchain computing platform includes virtual machine(s) configured and deployed to execute an operating system of the blockchain computing platform across a virtual network, and a plurality of interconnected data processing nodes each...