ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,699, issued on May 13, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Method and system for generalized provenance solution for blockchain supply chain applications" was invented by Steven C. Davis (Saint Peters, Mo.), Rob Byrne (Wicklow, Ireland), Robert Collins (Dublin), Leandro Nunes Da Silva Carvalho (Metuchen, N.J.) and Deborah Eleanor Barta (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for conveying auditable information regarding provenance of a product that is cryptographically accurate while retaining complete anonymity of product and participant on a blockchain includes: receiving a product identifier;...