ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,986, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.) and ImmunityBio Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Content authentication and validation via multi-factor digital tokens, systems, and methods" was invented by Luna Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.), John Zachary Sanborn (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles) and Nicholas James Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication tokens, systems, and methods are described. An illustrative method is disclosed to include receiving an electronic file including a digital image, receiving biometric information that is associat...