ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,128, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for authentication of a product" was invented by Alan Vinogradov (Nyack, N.Y.) and Barris Vinogradov (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, a method, and a device for authentication of a product includes one or more databases configured to store data of one or more products, and a user device communicatively coupled to the databases via a network. The user device includes at least one memory configured to store computer executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the computer-executable ...