ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,491, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Fidelity Information Services LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for blockchain-based non-fungible token (NFT) authentication" was invented by Luke Jurat (Fairfax, Va.), Vuk Radoicic (Belgrade, Serbia), Stefan Lazovic (Belgrade, Serbia), Brandon Castro (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Jeffrey G. Poli (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for generating blockchain-based dynamic non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for user authentication. The method includes receiving a request from a mobile device associated with a user. Capturing, via one or more sensors...