US Patent Issued to Artema Labs on June 17 for "Artifact origination and content tokenization" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,395, issued on June 17, was assigned to Artema Labs Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Artifact origination and content tokenization" was invented by Bjorn Markus Jakobsson (Portola Valley, Calif.), Ajay Kapur (Valencia, Calif.), Madhu Vijayan (Venice, Calif.) and Stephen C. Gerber (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices can be configured to broadcast blocks incorporating artifact origination tokens. Devices can include network interfaces, memory; and processors. Processors can be configured to obtain artifact-to-time association elements. Artifact-to-time association elements can include artifact references and timestamps. Timestamp...