US Patent Issued to AETHON OPERATIONS on Feb. 24 for "Linking digital and physical non-fungible items" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,909, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AETHON OPERATIONS LLC (Dallas).

"Linking digital and physical non-fungible items" was invented by Jason Sean Gagne-Keats (Cupertino, Calif.), Gary Anderson (San Mateo, Calif.), Wolfgang Wesley Muller (San Francisco) and Jean-Baptiste Charles Theou (Sene, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to a technique for representing a unique physical asset such as a smartphone with a unique (singular) digital asset such as a non-fungible token (NFT). The NFT and related metadata can be stored on a blockchain to verify ownership of the digital asset. In one example, the NFT is produ...