ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,522, issued on July 21, was assigned to TAPTEXT LLC (Coral Springs, Fla.).

"System and methods for secure interactions and digital petition management" was invented by Steve Doumar (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and David Teodosio (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for digital petition management utilizing the establishment of a universal, secure identity for online communications, interactions, and exchanges that uniquely associates an image, sound, or other digital asset with a person's identity using non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A digital signature associated with an individual who wants to sign a digital ...