ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,976, issued on June 17, was assigned to Black Atom Technologies Inc. (Lewes, Del.).

"Blockchain encoding system" was invented by Logan A. Wells (Lewes, Del.) and Rick Anthony Wells (Lewes, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments securely control an electronic asset. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of securely controlling an electronic asset includes identifying an asset NFT pertaining to the electronic asset. An ownership status of the electronic asset is computationally evaluated according to a proof of ownership provided by an owner node paired with the electronic asset. Responsive to evaluating the owner...