ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,533, issued on Sept. 2.
"Method and system for NFT validation" was invented by Elazar Stanislav Mario Georgiev (Jerusalem) and Leandro Morales Valle Cruz (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example NFT validation operation may include one or more of receiving an NFT creation request by an NFT processing node connected to a peer-to-peer file storage protocol system node over a blockchain; scanning, by the NFT processing node, the blockchain for an image file reference based on the request; retrieving, by the NFT processing node, the image file from the peer-to-peer file storage protocol system based on the image file reference; ...