ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,602, issued on June 17, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Tokenized structured exchange tracking" was invented by Debashis Ghosh (San Francisco), Luiz Fernando Flor De Silva (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Nathaniel C. Eutsler (San Francisco) and Matthew Mullin Shepherd (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a protection request for an exchange and generating a metadata object including a plurality of outputting attributes for outputting. The method further includes generating a protected NFT including a link with the metadata object. The protected NFT is encapsulated within a contr...