ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,490, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Royal Ark Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Tokenization of real-world objects and monetization thereof" was invented by Angelo Cipriano (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a system, a method, and a computer program product for tokenization of real-world physical objects and monetization thereof. The system is configured to scan a first physical object to generate a first geometric mesh. A 3D model of the physical object is generated based on the scan. The 3D model is used to determine dimensional data of the physical object. Further, one or more image capture sensors...