ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,790, issued on June 30, was assigned to Datacurve Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Persistent digital identity and rights management in video communication platforms" was invented by Rakesh Ramde (Los Altos, Calif.) and Amanjyot Singh Johar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Meeting participation and presentation information about an individual or project is collected from public and private systems into an electronic record. The data is represented as NFTs and stored on a block chain and used to reward participants based on their contributions and actions relating to the meeting or due to the presentation. All of this is do...