ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,381, issued on April 29, was assigned to Beatdapp Software Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"System and method for continuous tracking of media playback using blockchain" was invented by Pouria Assadipour (Burnaby, Canada), Andrew Batey (Vancouver, Canada) and Morgan Hayduk (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for continuous tracking of media file playback. First, transaction data from a platform stream is received. The transaction data corresponds to a request to play a media file from an end user, as well as continuous play information. Next, the transaction data is verified. Then, the verified transaction data is si...