ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,679, issued on May 13, was assigned to Digital Asset (Switzerland) GmbH (Zurich).

"Data storage segregation for maintaining data privacy in multi-node operations" was invented by Walter Eric Saraniecki (New York), Kelly Anne Mathieson (New York), Ratko Goran Veprek (Zurich), Johan Sjodin (Zurich) and Charng-Ching Yeh (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems to settle a transaction involving a plurality of digital assets, comprising receiving a notification of a proposed transaction comprising a plurality of proposed component atomic transactions that atomically transfer at least a...