ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,718, issued on May 13, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"NFT interaction processing system and method" was invented by Anandan Ethirkottai Sundararajan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a server computer, an authorization request message comprising a contract address and a token identifier during an interaction between a user device and a resource provider computer. The server computer verifies that an NFT, referenced by the contract address and the token identifier, is assigned to a first address and a second address. If verified, server computer d...