ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,800, issued on April 15, was assigned to Unstoppable Domains Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Resolving blockchain domains" was invented by Braden River Pezeshki (Reno, Nev.), Matthew Everett Gould (Reno, Nev.) and Bogdan Gusiev (Kyiv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to resolve a name of a domain of an identifier of web content is received. It is automatically determined that the name of the domain is to be resolved using a blockchain. A request is sent to a smart contract of the blockchain to obtain one or more resolution records for the domain. The one or more resolution records of the domain are received. The received one or mor...