ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,131, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Managing digital ledgers via digital tokens, systems, methods, and apparatus" was invented by Nicholas J. Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques include receiving a request to instantiate a layered notarized software architecture and instantiating a plurality of software layers in memory. The techniques further include generating a digital token on a primary ledger representing at least one software layer in the plurality of software layers. The techniques further include instanti...