US Patent Issued to NIKE on Feb. 18 for "Cryptographic digital asset architecture with selectively-lockable dynamic evolution" (American, Emirati, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,766, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Cryptographic digital asset architecture with selectively-lockable dynamic evolution" was invented by Christopher Andon (Portland, Ore.), Nikhil Gopalani (Dublin, Ohio), Chris Le Howard (Salt Lake City), Samuel Lespes (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Benoit Pagotto (Paris) and Steven Vasilev (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of distributing geolocation-influenced digital collectables includes instructing the creation of a plurality of first cryptographic tokens representing digital assets with at least one attribute configured to evolve over time; receiv...