ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,264, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Nasdaq Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for securing and disseminating time sensitive information using a blockchain" was invented by Akbar Ansari (Marlborough, Mass.), Thomas Fay (Succasunna, N.J.) and Dominick Paniscotti (Totowa, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information computer system is provided for securely releasing time-sensitive information to recipients via a blockchain. A submitter submits a document to the system and a blockchain transaction is generated and submitted to the blockchain based on the document (e.g., the document is included as part of the blockchain tran...