ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,609, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to PROVIDENTIA WORLDWIDE LLC (Fredericksburg, Va.).

"Method of generating globally verifiable unique identifiers using a scalable interlinked blockchain structure" was invented by S. Ryan Quick (Fredericksburg, Va.) and Armand Kolster (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems and methods for employing interlinking multiple independent and separately-scalable blockchains to create globally verifiable unique identifiers. The disclosed systems and methods facilitate the creation of the globally verifiable unique identifiers to a level of scalability unattainable wi...