US Patent Issued to Wacom on Sept. 1 for "NFT issuing method, computer, and computer-readable medium" (British, Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,858, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).

"NFT issuing method, computer, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Ryoji Ishii (Saitama, Japan), Joss Daniel Giffard-Burley (Frome, Great Britain) and Avinav Khanal (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An NFT (Non-Fungible Token) issuing method according to the present disclosure includes receiving a selection of a first artwork in which a watermark is embedded, authenticating, in reference to the watermark and information concerning a user who selects the first artwork, whether or not the user is an artist of the first artwork, and gene...