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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2021
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Gregory Falco, Stanford, CA (US);
Joshua Siegel, Novi, MI (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Abstract
Various disclosed embodiments pertain to a distributed audit trail system for use in a connected system including: a master unit to control a first aspect of the connected system and to create a blockchain light client and a distributed hash table (DHT); a first node to control a second aspect of the connected system; a second node to control a third aspect of the connected system; and one or more remote servers to form a blockchain full node, where the master unit, the first node, and the second node electronically communicate with each other through the DHT in order to form a combined audit trail, where the master unit creates a meta-hash of the software version of the software in the master unit, the first node, and the second node, system identification data, system sensor data, and system hardware configuration.