ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,681, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VICLIP INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for distributing certificate of right to use digital content, and computer program stored in medium in order to carry out method" was invented by Hyun Chul Seo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of distributing an amount of issuance of digital content includes: determining the amount of issuance corresponding to a certificate of right to use digital content; generating blocks corresponding to the amount of issuance in accordance with the certificate of right to use the digital content and adding the blocks to a block chain syste...