ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,096, issued on Feb. 17.

"Automatically pairing physical assets to a non-fungible token or digital asset" was invented by Declan Pene (Newport Coast, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for automatically pairing physical assets to a non-fungible token. For example, a process can include obtaining transaction information of a selected item associated with an online transaction between a user device and a provider system, the transaction information including a user identifier of a user of the user device. A digital wallet address of the user can be determined based on the user identifier, the digi...