ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,867, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Efficient computer-based indexing via digital tokens, systems, methods, and apparatus" was invented by Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles), John Wiacek (Los Angeles), Nicholas J. Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Jake Fyfe (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques including receiving a test digital token representing a game object and storing the test digital token. The techniques further include generating a set of token distinguishing features. The techniques further include obtaining a token result set based on the set of token disting...