US Patent Issued to Provenance Technology on Sept. 23 for "Method and device for authenticating provenance of wines and spirits" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,714, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Provenance Technology Corp. (Springfield, Va.).

"Method and device for authenticating provenance of wines and spirits" was invented by Thomas Nolan Andelin (Springfield, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a system for authenticating bottled goods includes, a near field communication (NFC) inlay having an electronic data component, a communication antenna, and a frangible circuit member configured to permanently alter the electronic data component upon breakage of the frangible circuit member, and a ferrite shield mounted to a second s...