ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,941, issued on July 15, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for distributed ledger migration" was invented by Ahmed A. Khan (Plano, Texas), Ravi G. Thota (Hyderabad, India), Jeaha Yang (Darien, Conn.), Praveen A. Reddy (Hyderabad, India), Krupakar Jonnalagadda (Hyderabad, India) and Rangesh Sripathi (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive a request to migrate a first distributed ledger, maintained by a first distributed ledger management system, to a second distributed ledger management system, and may generate first verification information based o...