ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,117, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Management system that determines authenticity of contents, communication apparatus, management method, method of controlling communication apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Daiyu Ueno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management system that manages contents associated with a hash value registered in a blockchain. A controller of the management system receives contents as a target of authenticity determination and an identification number for identifying authentic contents used as a reference for determining the authenticity of the target contents. The cont...