US Patent Issued to nChain Licensing on Dec. 23 for "Divisible tokens" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,437, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Divisible tokens" was invented by Wei Zhang (London) and Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating a second transaction for a blockchain. The blockchain comprises a first transaction comprising a first token and a first output transferring an amount of a digital asset between a second party and a first party. The first token represents a first amount of a token asset other than the digital asset, the second transaction is for transferring a second token representing a second amount of the token...