ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,559, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE HIGHER EDUCATION Corp. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Tamper proof transportation device" was invented by Donald Bruce Christianson (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Alexander Shafarenko (Hatfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a probabilistically digital tamper proof container for data, a method for loading the data onto the container and a method for subsequently reading the data from the container whilst simultaneously verifying that the data loaded onto the container hasn't been read previously."

The patent was filed on Aug. 19,...