ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,201, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AminoChain Inc. (New York).

"Transferring blockchain-based tokens representing biospecimens" was invented by Caspar Barnes (New York), Maximillian Mathews (Pittsburgh), Yurii Lebid (Malaga, Spain) and Alexander Lorenzo (Hackettstown, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and computer program product for managing tokenized biospecimen transfers are provided. A file including private data associated with one or more donors is retrieved by a biobank node connected to a blockchain network and from a database of a data provider. The file is processed to generate tokens corresponding ...