Xerox awarded patent using blockchain for audit trails

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Xerox may be known for copiers, but they continue to add to their massive patent portfolio for technologies only tangentially related.

One of those patents was just awarded, and uses blockchain technology to track and confirm a document’s integrity. Using decentralized nodes to verify authenticity along the way, the patent claims to be able to notify users of any change or alterations to an electronic document.

Read about it over at Cointelegraph.