ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,081, issued on June 2.
"Systems and methods for using codes and images within a blockchain" was invented by Konstantinos Bakalis (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods allow customers to verify the authenticity or provenance of physical objects before purchasing or obtaining the physical objects. The methods involve scanning a code of or a pattern embedded or incorporated in a physical object in transit or upon creation, transmitting the scanned code and information of the physical object through the Internet, generating or updating a block based on the scanned code and the information, verifying or authent...