ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,432, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Physical device for real-time minting of non-fungible tokens" was invented by Christopher Yan-Loon Chan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Matthew Buckle (Cupertino, Calif.), Casing Chu (San Mateo, Calif.), Benjamin D. Dearinger (Bixby, Okla.), Himanshu Goyal (Vancouver, Canada), Kelly Kong (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Ryan Moore (St. Augustine, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Token minting environment includes a physical token minter that is accessible to a group of users. A user initiates a session to mint a non-fungible token associated with an image that the physica...