ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,014, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Authoritative factual service for blockchain smart contracts" was invented by Ibrahim Badr (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for trigger event determination can include processing blockchain data to determine a trigger event. Data associated with the trigger event can be processed to determine a query. The query can then be utilized to recursively search a database for data descriptive of the trigger event occurring. A notification can then be provided to instruct a resulting action to be performed."

The patent was filed on April ...