ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,081, issued on July 8, was assigned to nChain Licensing AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Destination addressing for transactions associated with a distributed ledger" was invented by Steven Coughlan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes computer implemented methods, devices and systems for implementing an addressing service for transactions associated with a distributed ledger, wherein an alias is provided for a client among one or more clients associated with the addressing service, the alias being specific to the client. The method comprises the steps of obtaining or accessing a plurality of seed words; for a...