ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,510, issued on July 22, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Multi-factor authentication and post-authentication processing system" was invented by Ron G. Faris (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jett House (New York City, N.Y.), Aaron L. Uhrmacher (New York City, N.Y.) and Michael B. Hailey (Forest Grove, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-user computing device may utilize an imaging device to capture input from an electronic tag of a physical asset. The end-user computing device may generate supplemental digital data associated with the input. The end-user computing device may transmit the input and the supplemental digital data to...