ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,865, issued on March 31, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"Blockchain augmented crypto asset valuation apparatuses, processes and systems" was invented by Kieran Flesk (Gaway, Ireland), John McDonough (Nahant, Mass.) and Feina Niu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The Blockchain Augmented Crypto Asset Valuation Apparatuses, Processes and Systems ("NBSA") transforms authenticating NFT generation input, NFT authentication input, document publishing input, NFT document access input, transfer transaction input, clawback transaction input, valuation access request datastructure/inputs via NBSA components into authenticati...