ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,141, issued on March 24, was assigned to Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (Tokyo).

"NFT issuing system" was invented by Masashi Kawaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An NFT issuing system that issues an NFT related to digital content generated by inference by AI, includes an NFT issuing unit that issues an NFT including information of a learned model used to generate the digital content and a parameter given to the learned model at the time of inference."

The patent was filed on Dec. 5, 2023, under Application No. 18/529,477.

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