US Patent Issued to SnowGhost on March 31 for "Immutable chain of physical object provenance" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,093, issued on March 31, was assigned to SnowGhost Inc. (Whitefish, Mont.).

"Immutable chain of physical object provenance" was invented by Brett Allen (Whitefish, Mont.), Matthew Crest (Whitefish, Mont.), Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin (Redwood City, Calif.), William Mitsakos (Whitefish, Mont.) and Kim Brandwijk (Groesbeek, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and method for verifying the authenticity of physical objects by implementing an immutable chain of physical object provenance. The invention provides for verifying the provenance of a unique physical object such as a collectible by processing an image of the ...