ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,292, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"NFT based secure authentication and notification apparatuses, processes and systems" was invented by Leticia De La Rosa (Jersey City, N.J.), Feina Niu (Cambridge, Mass.), John McDonough (Nahant, Mass.) and Kieran Flesk (County Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The NFT Based Secure Authentication and Notification Apparatuses, Processes and Systems ("NBSA") transforms authenticating NFT generation input, NFT authentication input, document publishing input, NFT document access input datastructure/inputs via NBSA components into authenticating NFT generation output, NF...