ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,649, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SWEAR Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Ledger-based validation and re-encoding of digital media" was invented by Jason Lealand Crawforth (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices that support ledger-based validation and re-encoding of media data are described. A computer system may obtain a purported copy of a set of media data. The computer system may determine whether the purported copy is a valid copy of the original set of media data. Based on determining that the purported copy is a valid copy, the computer system may generate one or more additional copies of the set ...