ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,904, issued on July 8, was assigned to 2BC Innovations LLC (Barrington, Ill.).

"Securely processing a contingent action token" was invented by Gary W. Grube (Barrington Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executed by a computing device includes identifying a contingency-action token (CAT) of an object distributed ledger of a secure exchange that meets minimum CAT requirements. The method further includes determining whether to select the CAT based on an evaluation with regards to an evaluation profile. When selecting the CAT the method further includes producing a selected CAT and determining reassignment information f...