ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,170, issued on June 9, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for dynamically updating metadata during blockchain functions" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.), Austin Erickson (Herndon, Va.), Christopher Wu (Ashburn, Va.) and Timur Sherif (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to a variable non-fungible token that dynamically update metadata during blockchain functions. A variable non-fungible token comprises a non-fungible token that is minted with an indication of a non-transferable ownership wallet (e.g., a digital wallet for which th...