ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,029, issued on March 18, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for integrating blockchain functions and external systems for use in secure encrypted, communications across disparate computer network" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.), Austin Erickson (Herndon, Va.), Christopher Wu (Ashburn, Va.) and Timur Sherif (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to integrating blockchain functions with external systems using a variable non-fungible token. A variable non-fungible token comprises a non-fungible token that is minted with an indicati...