ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,986, issued on Dec. 30.

"Blockchain-based authentication system and method" was invented by Steven Ali Ghabel (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain-based authentication system and method is disclosed herein. The blockchain-based authentication system may provide immutable accounting of authenticity, provenance, chain of custody, and ownership for products, which is quickly and simply implemented into a wide range of products and services with low impact to existing business processes. The blockchain-based authentication system may use unique key pairings that cannot be duplicated. In one or more embodiments, the blockcha...