ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,664, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Location-based digital token management systems, methods, and apparatus" was invented by Nicholas J. Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.), John Wiacek (Los Angeles), Jake Fyfe (Los Angeles) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques (e.g., systems, apparatus, methods) for a location-based inventory management system. The techniques including obtaining a location of at least one mobile device and identifying at least one augmented reality (AR) virtual object container having a rule set based on the location. The technique...