ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,942, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NASDAQ INC. (New York).

"Systems and methods of blockchain transaction recordation" was invented by Thomas Fay (Succasunna, N.J.) and Dominick Paniscotti (Totowa, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is provided that communicates with a distributed blockchain computing system that includes multiple computing nodes. The exchange stores an order book and a plurality of digital wallets associated with different clients. The computer system receives new data transaction requests that are added to the order book. A match is identified between data transaction requests and hashes ass...