ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,271, issued on May 27, was assigned to Galiant Arts LLC (Austin, Texas).

"System and method for validating game application versions via a game NFT" was invented by Mark Meyers (Austin, Texas), Bruce E. Stuckman (Austin, Texas), John W. Howard (Cedar Park, Texas), Brian G. Howard (Austin, Texas) and Gregory Meador (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An NFT system operates by receiving an application launch request for a game application having a game non-fungible token (NFT) associated therewith; generating, via the game application and in response to the application launch request, launch metadata; sending the launch metad...