ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,538, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DTCC DIGITAL (US) INC. (Jersey City, N.J.).

"Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for secured data transfer over a decentralized computer network" was invented by George Daniel Doney (Riva, Md.) and Ihor Yermakov (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for secured, peer-to-peer transfer of data rights over a computer network, the method being accomplished by a decentralized computing system including a distributed ledger platform and an off-chain data host platform. A data owner authorizes the minting and distribution of an on-chain authorization token u...