ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,363, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GAD Research LLC (Dallas).

"Proof of play blockchain mining" was invented by William Blake Copeland (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for proof of play (PoP) blockchain mining. In some implementations, a corresponding method may include providing a set of one or more task parameters for a group task to each of two or more users; responsive to a consensus among the two or more users, storing a start-task transaction that includes the set of one or more task parameters signed by each of the two or...