US Patent Issued to Nant Holdings IP on Dec. 23 for "Location indexed blockchains, systems and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,083, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Location indexed blockchains, systems and method" was invented by Nicholas J. Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.), John Wiacek (Los Angeles), Jake Fyfe (Walnut, Calif.) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques include receiving a set of location data points (LDP), each LDP including geographic data and associated metadata. The operation further include for each respective LDP in the set of LDPs: generating a location index based on the geographic data of the respective LDP, identifying a corresponding notarized ledger...