ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,641, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TBCASOFT INC..

"Selection of digital properties for transactions" was invented by William Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ling Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Huan-Yi Lin (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns methods and systems for storing and selecting digital property pieces from and for a transaction, and for managing the changes from a transaction, based on cryptographic technology in a digital property management system, in order to improve the throughput and performance of the system. The digital property management system can define and maintain a p...