ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,281, issued on July 29, was assigned to DK Crown Holdings Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for token metadata management" was invented by Kevan Connor Mordan (Ogden, Utah), Mohammad Reza Kavian (Toronto) and Benjamin Ilan Weinberg (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for token metadata management are disclosed. A system can determine that a token has been minted on a blockchain based on a smart contract identifying an identifier of the token and a base uniform resource identifier (URI). Responsive to determining that the token has been minted on the blockchain, the system stores metadata for the token at a l...