ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,042, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Nonfungible token path synthesis with social sharing" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Sara Perelman (New York) and Stephen C. Hammer (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes generating several crypto tokens, each token includes a content portion that is encrypted. For each pair of tokens, a first token and a second token, in response to a correlation score between content portions of the first token and the second token exceeding a predetermined correlation threshold, creating a gr...