ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,408, issued on July 15, was assigned to Artema Labs Inc (Los Angeles).

"Systems and methods for transaction management in NFT-directed environments" was invented by Bjorn Markus Jakobsson (Portola Valley, Calif.), Stephen C. Gerber (Austin, Texas), Guy Stewart (Olympia, Wash.) and Keir Finlow-Bates (Eura, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques to facilitate transaction management in NFT-directed environments within an NFT platform are illustrated. One embodiment embeds an anchor into an application for utilizing tokens, wherein the anchor includes a verifier and an identifier unique to the application. The meth...