US Patent Issued to Shopify on Sept. 9 for "Maintaining blockchain state when performing non-blockchain commerce workflow" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,169, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Maintaining blockchain state when performing non-blockchain commerce workflow" was invented by John Jong-Suk Lee (Waterloo, Canada), Cory Svensson (North Bay, Canada) and Alan Ashley Fulks (Kelowna, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A web-based commerce system may maintain a transaction state between the commerce system and a blockchain application for recording transactions involving NFTs on a blockchain. When a buyer intends to purchase an NFT, the commerce system must coordinate on-chain and off-chain processes with a merchant storefront and a blockchain applicat...