ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,908, issued on July 29, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Ireland).

"Method and system for chain of custody verification" was invented by Salvatore Ierullo (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method at a network element for verification of chain of custody of goods within a portable container, the method including receiving, from a computing device associated with the portable container, first log data; receiving, from at least one transit element that interacted with the computing device associated with the portable container during transport of the goods, second log data; and correlating the first log data an...