ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,959, issued on May 5, was assigned to NTI INC. (Mie, Japan).

"Data structure, transmission device, receiving device, settlement device, method, and computer program" was invented by Takatoshi Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a data structure of virtual currency data with high safety. The virtual currency data, which is used in combination with a settlement device that accepts settlement when the virtual currency data is received from a predetermined device via a network and when predetermined conditions are satisfied, includes virtual currency encryption data which is data obtained by, according to a predeterm...