ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,366, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system of NFT validation in a broker marketplace" was invented by Nicole Reineke (Northborough, Mass.), JoAnne Hubbard (Concord, Mass.), Hanna Yehuda (Acton, Mass.), Alan Sevajian (Salem, N.H.), Debra Arneson (Henniker, N.H.), Corinne Schulze (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Robert Alan Barrett (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for authenticating a digital asset represented by an NFT that is stored in a blockchain are disclosed. An NFT that has been minted for an asset is identified. The NFT was minted by generating metadata for the...