US Patent Issued to EBAY on March 25 for "Artificial intelligence content generation control using non-fungible tokens" (Washington, Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,398, issued on March 25, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Artificial intelligence content generation control using non-fungible tokens" was invented by Shobith Srinivas Alva (Bothell, Wash.), Andrew Chalkley (Milwaukie, Ore.) and Ethan Benjamin Rubinson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generation of digital content by an artificial intelligence (AI) generator is controlled through the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for prompts to the AI generator. When a request is received for the AI generator to generate digital content using a prompt as input, ownership of an NFT for the prompt is verified. If own...