ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,879, issued on March 31, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Resource-based distributed public ledger system" was invented by Pankaj Sarin (Elkhorn, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a resource-based distributed public crypto currency blockchain include system provider device(s) that receive first crypto currency transaction information for a first crypto currency transaction that is configured to provide for the transfer of a crypto currency to a payee via a primary distributed public crypto currency blockchain maintained by computing devices. The system provider device(s) identify r...