ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,788, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Robust, efficient, and complete process flow implementation of an extended version of fractional non-fungible tokens in a blockchain platform" was invented by Gourav Sarkar (Bangalore, India), Paritosh Das (Bangalore, India) and Todd J. Little (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain application builder generates a fractional NFT application for managing a fractional NFT in a blockchain platform based on a specification data structure. The specification data structure specifies a set of token properties and a set of toke...