ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,286, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to DTCC DIGITAL (US) INC. (Jersey City, N.J.).

"Method and apparatus for creating and managing user configurable objects and functions on distributed ledger networks" was invented by George Daniel Doney (Riva, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To achieve no code or low code parity in decentralized computing systems, disclosed implementations provide a data structure and trusted control plane that enables the creation and operation of composable objects, that is objects whose functions and properties are derived from configurable and upgradable templates. The templates are data structures that def...