ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,902, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Digital Asset Capital Inc. (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Event-based entity scoring in distributed systems" was invented by Edward Hunter (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a directed graph of a self-executing protocol, the directed graph including a set of vertices associated with mutually exclusive category labels, where the self-executing protocol identifies a first entity. The method may include obtaining a first graph portion template that includes a vertex template and an edge template. The vertex template is associated with a category of the mutually excl...