Fortress Cyber Security Assigned Patent

Fortress Cyber Security, LLC, Orlando, FL , has been assigned a patent (10,181,948) developed by Nenov, Dejan, Boise, ID, and Kassabov, Roumen, Winter Park, FL, for a “secure storage of hashes within a distributed ledger.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure describes systems and methods for verification of data, including updates to applications, firmware, operating system libraries or other such data. This may be done through the use of a distributed ledger system to provide a secure anti-tamper mechanism for software and firmware updates that may be independently accessed and verified by any device. Distributed ledger systems, sometimes referred to as block chains, are online data storage systems with cryptography-based architecture providing links between records stored in ‘blocks’. Each block contains a hash of a previous block, providing a chain of linked blocks that are immutable: any alteration of a record changes the hash of the subsequent block, which changes the hash of the next subsequent block, etc. Accordingly, any modification of data is easily detectable”.

The patent application was filed on January 25, 2018 (15/880,209).