US Patent Issued to Canon on June 9 for "Management system, content management method, and storage medium for managing content data using blockchain" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,181, issued on June 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Management system, content management method, and storage medium for managing content data using blockchain" was invented by Atsushi Fujita (Tokyo), Keiichiro Kubo (Saitama, Japan), Daiyu Ueno (Tokyo), Naohiko Tsuchida (Tokyo), Keisuke Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Minoru Sakaida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management system that manages content data corresponding to a hash value registered in a block of a blockchain. Content data selected by a user from among pieces of content data that are management targets, is provided to a provision destination of th...