ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,157, issued on June 16, was assigned to Gemini IP LLC (New York).

"Tokenized asset markets and blockchain-embedded emissions offsets" was invented by Jamie Chapman (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for tokenized asset markets and blockchain embedded emission offsets. A computing device can identify a transaction and then identify a block in a blockchain, the block including a record of the transaction. The computing device can then identify a miner that created the block and calculate a carbon footprint for the transaction based at least in part on the identity of the miner. If the carbon foot...