US Patent Issued to Games Global Operations on Nov. 4 for "Non-fungible tokens with enhanced metadata" (British, South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,999, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Games Global Operations Ltd. (Douglas, Isle of Man).

"Non-fungible tokens with enhanced metadata" was invented by Andrew John Guy (Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa) and Dominic James Lennon (Orton-on-the-Hill, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embodiment may involve, based on input from an entity, defining, by a computing system, a non-fungible token (NFT) that is associated with metadata representing a value and an expiry time that defines when the NFT expires, wherein the NFT incorporates smart contract functionality to emit an event when the NFT expires, and wherein the NFT i...