ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,872, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"Computationally efficient transfer processing and auditing apparatuses, methods and systems" was invented by Xinxin Sheng (Cary, N.C.), Thomas Stephen McGuire (Gaway, Ireland), Amanda Chiu (San Francisco), Jonathan Hromi (Watertown, Mass.) and Raghav Chawla (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The Computationally Efficient Transfer Processing, Auditing, and Search Apparatuses, Methods and Systems ("SOCOACT") transforms smart contract request, crypto currency deposit request, crypto collateral deposit request, crypto currency transfer request, crypto collateral trans...