ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,277, issued on June 9, was assigned to INMAR CLEARING INC. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Non-fungible token system generating tethered and reference non-fungible tokens and related methods" was invented by Victor Danilchenko (South Hadley, Mass.) and Kevin R. Goode (Clemmons, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-fungible token (NFT) system may include a server cooperating to communicate a notification of a digital promotion having an acceptance rule set associated therewith. The server may prompt for acceptance of the promotion by accepting the acceptance rule set, and upon acceptance, generate a tethered NFT (tNFT) representative of t...