ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,711, issued on March 31.
"Lineage certification for digital assets" was invented by Joel Abraham Obstfeld (Bushey, Great Britain), Ronnie I. Dan (Modiin, Israel) and Oliver James Bull (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device provides, to a user interface, proof-of-creation information that certifies that data presented by the user interface was created by one or more sensors capturing the data from a real person. The device receives, via the user interface, an edit to the data, to form edited data. The device associates one or more keys with the edited data that are based on the proof-of...