ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,637, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Galiant Arts LLC (Austin, Texas).
"NFT-based authentication system for tagged objects and methods for use therewith" was invented by Mark Meyers (Austin, Texas), Bruce E. Stuckman (Austin, Texas), John W. Howard (Cedar Park, Texas), Brian G. Howard (Austin, Texas) and Gregory Meador (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system (AS) includes a radio frequency (RF) tag reader and operates by: assigning pairing data to be associated with an RF tag and a corresponding object to be authenticated wherein the pairing data includes a tag identifier, a private key, a public key, ...