ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,171, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LO3 Energy Inc. (San Francisco).

"Exergy token" was invented by Lawrence Orsini (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the management of energy data includes methods, systems and computer program products. One of the methods includes receiving, by a self-executing contract, settlement information from at least two nodes in a network, the network comprising a plurality of nodes, each node in the plurality of nodes may maintain at least a predetermined number of tokens, each token representing a value. The method includes validating a current state of a public ledger. The meth...