ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,242, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Time stamp token (TST) blockchains" was invented by Jeffrey J. Stapleton (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media including receiving, by a Time Stamp Authority (TSA) computing system from a requestor computing system, hashed data corresponding to original data, generating, by the TSA, a Time Stamp Token (TST) for the hashed data, publishing, by the TSA, the TST to a blockchain, and sending, by the TSA to the requestor computing system, the TST."

The...