US Patent Issued to eBay on Nov. 4 for "Supplemental digital content access control using nonfungible tokens (NFTs)" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,836, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Supplemental digital content access control using nonfungible tokens (NFTs)" was invented by Shannon Bruce Vosseller (Zurich, Switzerland) and Christopher Michael Matthews (Pacifica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to control access to digital content through use of nonfungible tokens (NFTs). This is performed by leveraging a blockchain such that digital content associated with an item is made available to supplement use of the item (e.g., to supplement use of a physical item, digital content, and ...