U.S. Patent 10878429 was awarded on December 29, 2020 and is entitled “Systems and methods for using codes and images within a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Konstantinos Bakalis of Brooklyn, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Systems and methods allow customers to verify the authenticity or provenance of physical objects before purchasing or obtaining the physical objects. The methods involve scanning a code of or a pattern embedded or incorporated in a physical object in transit or upon creation, transmitting the scanned code and information of the physical object through the Internet, generating or updating a block based on the scanned code and the information, verifying or authenticating the block, and storing the block as an immutable part of a distributed ledger. The code or pattern is a unique identifier of the physical object. The methods may include capturing an image of the physical object (e.g., an identification card, document, or passport) or an object associated with the physical object to be used for secondary verification and generating or updating the block so as to include the obtained image in the block of the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 10, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/156570 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10878429. The primary examiner was Tamara Griffin.

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