ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,964, issued on May 13, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for secure cross-ledger recordation" was invented by Ahmed A. Khan (Plano, Texas), Mohammed Alsadi (Redmond, Wash.), Jeaha Yang (Darien, Conn.) and Rangesh Sripathi (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may receive a cross-ledger recordation request that includes an information payload, an indication of a target distributed ledger to which the information payload should be recorded, and an indication of a second distributed ledger to which a reference that refers to the first distribu...