US Patent Issued to Citizen Digital on Feb. 11 for "Vinyl record with integrated authenticity" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,981, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Citizen Digital Inc. (Asheville, N.C.).

"Vinyl record with integrated authenticity" was invented by Sean Moore (Asheville, N.C.) and Peter Schaper (Asheville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A record (100) may include a disk (102), an embedded electronic authentication tag (104), a cover (106) between the disk and the electronic authentication tag, and one or more record labels (108A, 108B). The disk, electronic authentication tag, and cover have a spindle hole (114) and a common centerline (116). The electronic authentication tag contains a unique identification code pointing to informatio...