ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,272, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Trace Labs LLC (Shelburne, Vt.).

"Systems and methods for providing a decentralized anti-counterfeit solution for supply chain tracking using single-use codes" was invented by Paul Lintilhac (Springfield, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a decentralized anti-counterfeit solution for supply chain tracking are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: electronically store a product identifier that identifies a physical product; generate a secret code that is packaged with the physical product in a tamper-evident manner; generate a one-way encrypted code based o...