ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,557, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for data lineage authentication" was invented by Rameshchandra Bhaskar Ketharaju (Hyderabad, India), Himanshu Baral (Fremont, Calif.) and Shuvam Sengupta (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for providing interoperability between private and public blockchains. An example method for providing interoperability between private and public blockchains includes, by a key exchange controller (KEC): receiving access key generation instructions; generating, ba...