ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,181, issued on May 13, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"System and method for authenticity service" was invented by Joel S. Hartshorn (Port Orchard, Wash.), Mark Paxman Warnick (San Antonio), Elena Marie Carrasco (Converse, Texas), Ravi Durairaj (San Antonio), Donald Nathaniel Holloway III (San Antonio), Nolan Serrao (Plano, Texas) and Christian A. Williams (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining an authenticity of an asset includes one or more hardware processors. The system also includes a non-transitory memory, the non-transitory memory storing instructions ...