US Patent Issued to PWCC MARKETPLACE on March 3 for "Generating a media-based unique object identifier" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,936, issued on March 3, was assigned to PWCC MARKETPLACE LLC (Tigard, Ore.).

"Generating a media-based unique object identifier" was invented by Brent Huigens (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of uniquely identifying a previously unknown object includes generating a media record of an unveiling of the previously unknown object to become an identified object with a known identity, generating a unique identifier of the identified object, associating the unique identifier of the identified object with the identified object itself, and associating the media record of the unveiling of the unveiled object with the uni...