US Patent Issued to NeXBIT Networks on Aug. 5 for "Municipality-based distributed ledger architecture" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,462, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NeXBIT Networks LLC (Wellington, Fla.).

"Municipality-based distributed ledger architecture" was invented by Ronald B. Zimmerman III (Wellington, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a sensor at a first location proximate a polluting system to collect environmental data of a first type and an energy consumption monitoring platform at the first location to generate energy consumption data associated with the polluting system. The system includes a controller coupled to the sensor and the monitoring platform to direct communication of environmental data and energy consumption data ...