ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,316, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Rotation 5 Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Personal financial network with personalized digital coins" was invented by Priya Rajendran (Los Altos, Calif.) and Sen Reeves Xavier (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for managing payment transactions associated with a task completion includes receiving a service assignment and a digital coin value associated with the service assignment over a network from a first computing device associated with a first user, and sending the service assignment over the network for display on a second computing device associated with a second user. The ...