ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,132, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to cycaltrust Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Product appraisal and authentication system and method" was invented by Emi Kumagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hashed identifier individually assigned to an appraisal required product based on digital goods data of the appraisal required product (5) is generated, a transaction hash or a two-dimensional code corresponding thereto generated when a non-fungible token (NFT) of the appraisal required product (5) associated with the generated identifier is recorded on a blockchain is output, and a first blockchain wallet address of an owner of the NFT of the...