ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,500, issued on June 17.

"Distributed ledger and blockchain technology-based recruitment, job searching and/or project searching, scheduling, and/or asset tracking and/or monitoring, apparatus and method" was invented by Raymond Anthony Joao (Yonkers, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including a central processing computer which is specially programmed to process recruitment, job searching, project searching, or scheduling, information; and a distributed ledger and blockchain technology system. The central processing computer provides or transmits an electronic forum to a user communication device, wherein the central...