ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,015, issued on April 7, was assigned to DataCoining LLC (Princeton, N.J.).

"Agentic data monetization system with a data asset backed cryptocurrency" was invented by David Brener Kahn (Princeton, N.J.) and Sorat Tungkasiri (Skillman, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for operating a cryptocurrency, including generating, by first computing devices, raw data sets representative of activities performed by respective users while each of the users is using the Internet. A second computing device may determine an aggregate data value of at least a portion of an aggregate of the raw data sets. The at least a portion of...