ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,568, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Crown and the Cross LLC (Sheridan, Wyo.).

"Non-bypassable age-token gating across integration surfaces with verifiable age-compliance receipts" was invented by Yong Bok Lee (Sheridan, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method provide device-level age tokens and generate multi-jurisdiction age-compliance receipts that govern execution of age-relevant actions at one or more integration surfaces. The system obtains, from a device or user profile, an age token bound to an age tier and verification material, and validates the token under cryptographic verificatio...