ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,523, issued on June 3, was assigned to YOUKI GmbH (Amberg, Germany).

"System, method and apparatus for performing cryptographically secured transactions" was invented by Martin Stoussavljewitsch (Poppenricht, Germany) and Michael Stoussavljewitsch (Poppenricht, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing transactions between at least a first and at least a second transaction partner, comprising a plurality of computing and communication units, which are provided in a locally distributed manner at a plurality of locations, each computing and communication unit being coupled to at least one measuring sensor, the compu...