ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,864, issued on Aug. 26.

"System for permanently storing and controlling a file and associated metadata on the blockchain" was invented by Joseph Vu Pham (Penrith, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for permanently storing and controlling a file and associated metadata on the blockchain. The system includes: a file deconstruction module configured to receive a file from an engine output and divide the associated metadata into multiple chunks of ASCII where the system generates a code-based reference for each chunk; and an encoding module where the system permanently encodes each chunk and code-based reference and associ...