ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,476, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Bakkt Marketplace LLC (Atlanta).

"Closed-loop environment for efficient, accurate, and secure transaction processing" was invented by Christopher Michael Petersen (Lakeway, Texas), Jeffrey Scott Pittelkau (Montgomery, Ala.), Nikolais Linsteadt (Applegate, Calif.), Joseph Arthur Revnes (Atlanta), Brian Daniel Cooper (Marietta, Ga.), William Matthau (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Yamini Bistesh Sagar (Alpharetta, Ga.), Nicolas Frederic Cabrera (Atlanta), Utkarsh Agarwal (Tucson, Ariz.), Tim Kuchlein (Cupertino, Calif.), Bharath Lakshmanan (San Ramon, Calif.), William Andrew Bryant (Alpharetta, Ga.), Stephen Paul Saucier (Atlanta), Deepak Kumar (Mari...