ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,643, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"User assumption of identity of NFT in crypto wallet" was invented by Yu Jiang Tham (Seattle), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Seattle) and Ana Maria Cardenas Gasca (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and associated methods display on a user device a non-fungible token (NFT) in an application that displays video data. The methods include storing the NFT of a user in a database accessible to the application, associating an ID of the user for the application to the NFT, and receiving a selection of the NFT during use of the application. Upon select...