ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,829, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Electronic system for generating and tracking linked electronic digital certificates" was invented by Manu Jacob Kurian (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for the generating and tracking linked electronic digital certificates. The present invention may be configured to generate a first electronic digital certificate having first properties and being associated with a first artifact owned by a first group of users, store the first electronic digital certificate, and record first inter...