ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,466, issued on March 25.

"Distributed ledger and blockchain technology-based recruitment, job searching and/or project searching, scheduling, and/or asset tracking and/or monitoring, and/or intellectual property commercialization, 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 specially programmed to process recruitment, job searching, project searching, or scheduling, information, regarding a job or project related to a commercialization or monetization activity regarding an intellectual property; and a distributed ledger...