ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,495, issued on Aug. 18.

"Web3 transfer protocol" was invented by Brian Cripe (San Francisco), Chris Loeper (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Danyal Prout (Woodside, Calif.), Jim Cai (Moraga, Calif.) and Kevin Smith (Canton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A self-executing program of a blockchain distributed data store may receive a first message that includes indications of a sender address and a first amount of a first crypto token type to be received by a recipient address. The self-executing program may verify based at least in part on execution of the self-executing program, ...