US 11,811,941 B2
Systems and methods of authenticating items
Charles H. Lobo, Cave Springs, AR (US); Sid Shake, Rogers, AR (US); Bruce W. Wilkinson, Rogers, AR (US); and David M. Nelms, Rogers, AR (US)
Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed by Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/101,965.
Application 18/101,965 is a continuation of application No. 16/541,563, filed on Aug. 15, 2019, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/719,493, filed on Aug. 17, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171107 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06Q 20/38 (2012.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 9/3234 (2013.01) [G06F 16/2365 (2019.01); G06F 16/2379 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06Q 20/389 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A distributed cryptographic item authentication system, comprising:
a first sensor system; and
an authentication control circuit coupled with non-transitory memory storing code that when implemented by the authentication control circuit causes the authentication control circuit to:
obtain first sensor data, from the first sensor system and obtain an initial identification of an item being authenticated based on the first sensor data;
access a blockchain database source and acquire an item authentication block specific to the item based on the initial identification;
obtain, from the item authentication block, a first set of authentication instructions to be applied in authenticating the item;
control the first sensor system to capture a collection of multiple different current authentication sensor data specific to the item in response to implementation of one or more instructions of the first set of authentication instructions comprising one or more instructions to achieve a first physical orientation between the item and the first sensor system; and
confirm an authentication of the item based on one or more of the multiple current authentication sensor data relative to a corresponding one or more of a set of multiple historic authentication sensor data.