ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,604, issued on June 17.

"Systems and methods for transacting of units derived from non-commodifiable work products" was invented by Alexander Economides (Houston), Dorothy Haraminac (Baytown, Texas) and Tri Nguyen (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems, methods, and articles for generating and handling units or records derived from non-commodifiable work products, and the like. The disclosure provides for generating a certification record, including receiving work product data and generating a digitized record derived from the work product data."

The patent was filed on Sept. 29, 2023, under Application ...