US Patent Issued to Bank of America on May 6 for "Non-fungible token with adaptable digital files" (North Carolina, Illinois, New Jersey, Texas, Rhode Island, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,653, issued on May 6, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Non-fungible token with adaptable digital files" was invented by Anna Kristen Pingel Berry (Indian Land, S.C.), Shweta Ambulkar (Plainsboro, N.J.), Benjamin Daniel Hardman (Harrisburg, N.C.), Angela Ianni (Lincoln, R.I.), Ravi Joshi (Pennington, N.J.), Olga Kocharyan (Matthews, N.C.), Luqman Sharief (Libertyville, Ill.) and Michael Wm. Whitaker (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adaptation/alteration of the digital file referenced to an underlying Non-Fungible Token (NFT). Adaptation/alteration of the digital file occurs via NFT metadata-de...