Abstract
The assignee for this patent, patent number 11962402, is Hoptroff London Limited (London, UnitedKingdom).Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Ithas been challenging to determine the truth of an event re lying on the electronic origination of informationand its liberal distribution over the internet. False information can be published or propagated withoutchec ks and balances. Truth may be established by proving that a recorded event (e.g. , an electronicrecord of an event) actually happened at a specific place and ti me to a specific object. For example, toprove that an event happened at a speci fic time and place to a specific object may require that the eventcontent (e.g. , a photo, a published work, a bank transaction, etc.) is accompanied by the tim e, placeand identity metadata that can be demonstrated to have been determined accurately and immutably.”
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