ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,259, issued on July 29, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Advanced non-fungible token blockchain architecture" was invented by Bradley Turner (Chandler, Ariz.), Michael Jim Tien Chan (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Michael Padilla (San Jose, Calif.), Liam Julian DiGregorio (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Charles Gabriel Neale Dalton (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems described herein may implement non-fungible tokens that implement a programmable grammar-based syntax in a variety of environments. In an embodiment, a first non-fungible token that implements a programmable grammar-based synta...