ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,159, issued on May 5, was assigned to Digital Asset (Switzerland) GmbH (Zurich).

"Computer system and method for distributed privacy-preserving shared execution of one or more processes" was invented by James Benton Litsios (New York), Simon Meier (Zurich), Ognjen Maric (Zurich), Soren Gerhard Bleikertz (Zurich) and Francesco Mazzoli (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system (100) for distributed shared execution of one or more shared processes, comprising: first program code for the one or more shared processes that comprises one or more shared code segments (142, 144, 146) shared between a first authorizing node (102) ...