ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,527, issued on July 22, was assigned to Rebate Assets LLC (Rockford, Ill.).

"Utilizing a public benefit assets secure token" was invented by Peter M. Shannon III (Western Springs, Ill.) and Gary W. Grube (Barrington Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executed by a computing entity includes establishing a set of cryptography-authenticated public benefit asset information for a selected set of public benefit credit assets of a set of candidate public benefit credit assets to generate the selected set of public benefit credit assets. The method further includes generating, using a securely passing process, a secure firs...