ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,389, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Method and system for the atomic exchange of blockchain assets using transient key pairs" was invented by Steven C. Davis (Saint Peters, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for atomic exchange of assets on multiple blockchains using transient key pairs includes: generating, by a first computing device, a proposal message, the proposal message including at least a first transaction value, a first network identifier corresponding to a first blockchain, a second transaction value, a second network identifier corresponding to a second blockc...