ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,420, issued on June 24, was assigned to 2BC Innovations LLC (Barrington, Ill.).

"Selecting 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 non-fungible token (NFT) of an object distributed ledger that meets obtained minimum NFT requirements. The method further includes determining whether to select the NFT based on an evaluation of the NFT with regards to an evaluation profile. When selecting the NFT the method further includes to producing a selected NFT and determining reassignment information for the selec...