ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,290, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Digital content control based on nonfungible tokens" was invented by Shannon Bruce Vosseller (Zurich) 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 provide digital content to users 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 encourage the user to interact with NFTs on the service provider platform (e.g., discounts, NFT listing functionality, automatic in...