ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,026, issued on March 18, was assigned to Alitheon Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Secure digital fingerprint key object database" was invented by Justin Lynn Withrow (Bellevue, Wash.), David Justin Ross (Redmond, Wash.) and Vala Andresdottir Withrow (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data store to store and access digital records is provided, and a key object record is initialized in the data store to store data associated with a physical key object. A digital fingerprint of the physical key object is stored in the key object record. Another digital record is created in the data store that is not the key object record. The di...