ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,314, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Spacefarm LLC (New York).

"Systems, methods and techniques for ascertaining object provenance and/or status" was invented by Federico Pignatelli della Leonessa (New York), Rocchi Francesco (Ravenna, Italy) and Alberto Finadri (Castiglione Delle Stiviere, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for determining provenance (e.g., origin, authenticity) for an object using digital image data of one or more objects. A system receives, via a network, first digital image data of an object. The system determines from the first digital image data, a first set of f...