ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,585, issued on June 30, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Systems and methods for governing use rights of digital assets across heterogeneous virtual platforms" was invented by Christopher Andon (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are computing systems for transferring digital assets between virtual platforms, methods for making/using such systems, and digital assets imported/exported by such systems. A method for controlling transfer of digital assets includes storing a fungible digital asset on a digital platform in association with a personal account of a user. A server computer of the digital plat...