ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,000, issued on March 18, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"System and method for blockchain data transfers" was invented by Paromita Bhattacharya (Changannagar, India), Prabahar Natarajan (Cumming, Ga.), Itiernajerha Jewel Oghoghomeh (Gastonia, N.C.) and Niraj Bharatkumar Thakar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital distributed ledger-based system provides for receiving, via a first application, a first data transmission record representative of a transmission of a file by the first application, and for receiving, via a second application, a first data receipt record representative of a rec...