ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,889, issued on July 8, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Computer-implemented systems and methods for combining blockchain technology with digital twins" was invented by Alexandra Covaci (Canterbury, Great Britain), Giuseppe Destefanis (London), Simone Madeo (London), Patrick Motylinski (London) and Stephane Vincent (Luxembourg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method and system is described which uses blockchain technology as a storage system for data acquired from a digital twin. The blockchain can be used to generate an immutable transaction history of data produced by the digital twin. In...