US Patent Issued to VeriSign on Dec. 23 for "Authorization and refusal of modification, and partial modification ability, of a network identifier" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,702, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Authorization and refusal of modification, and partial modification ability, of a network identifier" was invented by Andrew Kaizer (Arlington, Va.) and Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer products for providing fractional control of a domain name by a plurality of entities enable operations that may include: providing an executable program for storage on a blockchain, the executable program configured to store a representation of the domain name in association with a plurality of identifications that each corr...