ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,296, issued on June 9, was assigned to EYGS LLP (London).

"Systems, apparatus and methods for identifying and securely storing distinguishing characteristics in a distributed ledger within a distributed ledger-based network based on fungible and non-fungible tokens" was invented by John Stoddard Robotham (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method includes storing data associated with fungible assets in a distributed ledger database. The method includes dividing fungible tokens into a first set of groups of fungible tokens based on the data and sending, via the distributed ledger-based network and base...