US Patent Issued to AMVAC Chemical on June 9 for "Secure and verifiable tracking of agricultural products" (California, Illinois, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,504, issued on June 9, was assigned to AMVAC Chemical Corp. (Newport Beach, Calif.).

"Secure and verifiable tracking of agricultural products" was invented by Richard L. Rice (Collierville, Tenn.), Ulrich G. Trogele (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Kent W. James (Springfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method to collect and store data related to product stored in a container. In response to filling the container with the product, the following data are stored in at least one first record in an external database (such as a distributed ledger, e.g., blockchain): a product type of the first product; ...