ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,868, issued on March 31, was assigned to Vivid Seats LLC (Chicago).

"Ticketing validation and fulfillment system and method" was invented by Jonathan M. Wagner (Audubon, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented systems, methods, and products for enabling one or more nodes of a first electronic ledger platform to carry out operations with respect to one or more records of the first electronic ledger platform. The operations may include receiving an indication from a smart contract to manage a transaction associated with purchase of a token and processing financial information associated with the purchase of the token t...