ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,328, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Location-based digital token management systems, methods, and apparatus" was invented by Nicholas J. Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.), John Wiacek (Los Angeles), Jake Fyfe (Los Angeles) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques include storing state information of a set of virtual container units (VCUs), associated digital tokens and current states. The techniques further include presenting an augmented reality (AR) virtual object dispenser in an AR session containing at least a subset of the set of VCUs. In respo...