S&P Global Assigned Patent

S&P Global Inc., New York, NY, has been assigned a patent (11,212,347) developed by Zakrzewski, Thomas, Mahwah, NJ, and Daley, Marcus Isaac, New York, NY, for a “private content storage with public blockchain metadata.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “This specification relates to methods and systems for content management. One of the methods includes: receiving data identifying a user, verifying that the user is an authorized user, receiving initial content from the authorized user, encrypting the initial content using an encryption key to produce encrypted content, forwarding the encrypted content for storage, creating content storage metadata, encrypting the content storage metadata to provide encrypted content storage metadata, and forwarding the encrypted content storage metadata to a blockchain such as a public ledger.”

The patent application was filed on February 5, 2019 (16/268,419).