ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,023, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to VERONA HOLDINGS SEZC (George Town, Cayman Islands).

"Configuring a set of digital tokens with a temporal attribute that determines a timing of redemption of the set of digital tokens for a corresponding set of items" was invented by William Edward Quigley (Pacific Palisades, Calif.), Lukasz Jakub Sliwka (Las Vegas), Jonathan Yantis (Grants Pass, Ore.), Jason Seldon (Los Angeles), Charles Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Teymour El-Tahry (Detroit) and Brent Bliven (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tokenizing real-world items for use in digital commerce are disclosed. ...