ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,384, issued on March 25, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Enabling deep historical data use via NFT re-minting" was invented by Adam D. Eivy (Vashon, Wash.), Dionysius Mavromatis (Kirkland, Wash.) and Charles V. Pritchard (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one exemplary implementation, a system includes a hardware processor and a system memory storing software code, the hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to provide a non-fungible token (NFT) for transfer of a right to the NFT, the NFT minted to include first metadata providing a historical rights record of the N...