ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,417, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TYNTRE LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Blockchain-based artificial intelligence agent life cycle management and authentication systems and methods" was invented by Thomas Chen (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are presented for using blockchain technologies to manage the life cycle and authentication of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. When an AI agent is created, the AI agent registers itself with an authentication system. The authentication system creates identity information for the AI agent and store on a blockchain. The identity information is used to track th...