ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,938, issued on May 13, was assigned to Circle Internet Financial LLC (Boston).

"Scalable, secure, efficient, and adaptable distributed digital ledger transaction network" was invented by Avery Li Kuang Ching (Cupertino, Calif.), Francois Garillot (Seattle), Mathieu J.P. Baudet (Mountain View, Calif.), Georges Danezis (London), Zekun Li (Foster City, Calif.), Dmitri Perelman (San Jose, Calif.) and Benjamin D. Maurer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable storage media for implementing a scalable, secure, efficient, and adaptable distributed...