ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,090, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Blockchain-based systems and methods for communicating, storing and processing data over a blockchain network" was invented by Silvia Bartolucci (London), Pauline Bernat (London) and Daniel Joseph (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for transmitting and/or submitting digital content such as feedback for an entity to a blockchain is disclosed. This may be, for example, the Bitcoin blockchain. The method, which is implemented at a first node, includes: submitting, to the blockchain, a first transaction for committing a firs...