ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,502, issued on July 21, was assigned to MYLIME S.R.L. (Bologna, Italy).

"Method for managing data and storing them in blockchain" was invented by Luca Bravo (Bologna, Italy), Antonio Molinari (Bologna, Italy) and Alfredo Reboa (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method for associating information with an asset, comprising the following steps: *acquiring a unique identifying code associated with the asset; *transmitting to a digital platform a request for storing the information about the asset; * through the digital platform, verifying whether storing the information in blockchain requires the consent...