ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,605, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sharematter Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"System and method for the valuation and securitization of content" was invented by Georges Ayoub (Vancouver, Canada) and Zeid Ayoub (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and methodology of the present invention operate, in one embodiment, to provide a set of cloud-based applications through which creators, initial investors and secondary investors can all interact so that content catalogs can be valued, initially invested in and traded on a secondary basis. As a result, content creators can source valuable capital for growth and expans...