US Patent Issued to Vijay Madisetti on July 29 for "Methods and systems for forensic investigations in contract networks" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,830, issued on July 29, was assigned to Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Methods and systems for forensic investigations in contract networks" was invented by Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Arshdeep Bahga (Chandigarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting fraud across networks of interconnected smart contracts on a blockchain network, including constructing a graph representation of nodes and node edges representing smart contracts and interactions therebetween on a blockchain network. New smart contracts are added to the graph representation which is updated to reflect updated edges. Pattern recogniti...