ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,128, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to tZERO IP LLC (Salt Lake City).

"Deploying a second smart contract based on a first smart contract" was invented by Justin Wilson (Draper, Utah), Nicole Sanders (Cottonwood Heights, Utah), Robert Christensen (Sandy, Utah), Chase Lester (West Jordan, Utah) and Andrew Warner (Midvale, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node that includes at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one network interface. The network node is configured to be within a plurality of network nodes communicatively coupled in a peer-to-peer network of network nodes implementing a distributed ledge...