ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,749, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Protection architecture using proof of integrity on distributed ledgers" was invented by Govinda Rajulu Nelluri (Hyderabad, India), Vinay K. Pandey (San Francisco) and Shashank Raju Birudharaju (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for restricting exchanges using a proof of integrity model. One system includes memory and at least one processing circuit configured to receive, from a node on a first DLT network, an exchange request, the exchange request includes an amount of a digital asset to ex...