ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,443, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DIGITAL FIRST HOLDINGS LLC (Atlanta).

"System and method for providing a decentralized exchange for credit lending" was invented by Bryan Walser Nonni (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing a financial transaction are disclosed. An application running on a first server requests a financial transaction secured by collateral of a first party in the form of digital currency. The application generates a semantic ASK message encoded with parameters defining the requested financial transaction. The semantic ASK message is sent to one or more second parties via a de...