ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,086, issued on July 8, was assigned to Interledger Foundation Inc. (Tampa, Fla.).

"Private networks and content requests in a resource transfer system" was invented by Stefan Thomas (San Francisco) and Evan Schwartz (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for a resource transfer system. An instruction to transfer a first quantity of a resource from a first resource pool to a second resource pool may be received. A hold may be placed on a second quantity of the resource in the first resource pool. The held second quantity of the first resource may not be transferred from the first resource pool unti...