ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,085, issued on May 13, was assigned to Metatope LLC (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

"Non-fungible token minting in a metaverse environment" was invented by Jordan Yallen (Los Angeles), Walker Holmes (Indialantic, Fla.) and Joseph Poulose (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a metaverse server configured to host a metaverse environment configured to facilitate digital interactions. The metaverse server is configured to host, within the metaverse environment, digital content generated by a creator. The digital content includes image data, text data, audio data, and/or video data. The digital content includ...