ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,499, issued on Sept. 16.

"Methods and systems of facilitating trading non-negotiable financial assets" was invented by Shawn William Orr (Weston, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of facilitating trading non-negotiable financial assets. Further, the method may include receiving an issue data from at least one issuer device associated with at least one issuer, issuing a certificate of deposit (CD) based on the issue data, receiving a purchase request data from at least one investor device associated with at least one investor, identifying the CD based on the CD identifier, processing a transa...