ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,692, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CPLABS INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Tampering verification system and method for financial institution certificates, based on blockchain" was invented by Joon Sun Uhr (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jay Wu Hong (Seoul, South Korea) and Joo Han Song (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tampering verification system and method for financial institution certificates are based on blockchain and verify whether one of the financial institution certificates has been tampered with by comparing the contents of the financial institution certificate at the point of first being gener...