ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,820, issued on July 14, was assigned to AUTHENTIC.NETWORK GMBH (Chemnitz, Germany).

"Method for assigning information referring to a physical object to a nonfungible token" was invented by Frank Theeg (Chemnitz, Germany) and Torsten Stein (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for assigning information referring to a physical object to a nonfungible token, wherein the method comprises the following steps: creating a nonfungible token, in particular in a blockchain, optical acquiring an image of a physical information carrier, wherein the image comprises at least one non-encoded image part ...