US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Tracking and verification of physical assets" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,127, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Tracking and verification of physical assets" was invented by Klaus Werner (Moetzingen, Germany), Jakob Christopher Lang (Tuebingen, Germany), Joerg Schmidbauer (Boeblingen, Germany) and Angel Nunez Mencias (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of receiving a signed storage request which comprises a unique identifier of an object, a public key of the object, and a signed security value associated with the object, determining, via code installed on a database node, whether the signe...