US Patent Issued to Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) on Aug. 26 for "Geoblockchain authentication of map related data" (Rhode Island, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,028, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) (Redlands, Calif.).

"Geoblockchain authentication of map related data" was invented by Konstantinos Papantoniou (Redlands, Calif.) and Brent Jones (Wakefield, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a map with imbedded, authenticated data is described. A geographic feature is represented on a map with one or more of points, lines and polygons in a first layer of the map. Data corresponding to the geographic feature is provided. The provided data is encoded, in a first block, with the one or more of points, lines and polygons from...