US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Nov. 11 for "Metadata distribution and management via transactional blockchain technology" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,783, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Metadata distribution and management via transactional blockchain technology" was invented by Robert Barr Thompson (Broomall, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for securely distributing metadata using a block chain. The system generates a block for a distributed blockchain ledger such that the block includes an encrypted metadata item of a media asset. The system, at a first time, transmits the block for storage in the distributed blockchain ledger such that a copy of the distributed blockchain ledger is stored by the fir...