ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,276, issued on May 20, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Tokenized structured data sharing" was invented by 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 system can obtain, based on a first control structure that identifies a content type, a non-fungible token (NFT) linked to a content object corresponding to the content type, encapsulate the NFT within a container having a second control structure that restricts output by the content object linked to the encapsulated NFT, and generate a control token compatible with a third control structure t...