US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 22 for "Method to validate ownership and authentication of a digital asset" (California, North Carolina, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,589, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method to validate ownership and authentication of a digital asset" was invented by Luis Angel Bathen (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Kevin Butler (San Jose, Calif.), Marc Henri Coq (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Cedric D. Cook (Richmond, Texas), Akil Khamisi Sutton (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Sandra C Thompson (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for validating ownership of a digital asset is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes transmitting a public key for encrypting a digital asset to an owner of ...