ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,437, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Distributed ledger tracking of event data" was invented by Nicholas J. Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.), John Wiacek (Los Angeles) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques including data collection, organization and usage are provided, including in connection with computer-based gaming. Methods and systems are provided for establishing a set of data chronicling at least a portion of a duration of a computer-based gaming event that includes at least one user engaging in gaming using a computer or a computer-based de...