ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,213, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Peggy Inc. (Toronto).

"Method for authentication of physical objects through capture and processing of fingerprint data via digital artifacts" was invented by Adam Meghji (Toronto) and Craig Follett (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods disclosed herein may be conducted as part of a process of generating a unique digital fingerprint of a physical artifact and/or to determine whether the physical artifact within a region of interest can be used for authentication/validation against a unique digital fingerprint of the physical artifact that has been generated. A method includes capturin...