Blockchain Search Mapping for Verifiable Product Origin Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems lack effective methods to track the origin and history of products using blockchain technology, leading to consumer uncertainty about the source of goods and potential malfeasance in supply chains, especially regarding human rights violations and food safety, with existing search engines providing biased results and lacking accountability.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a blockchain search system using multi-dimensional tracking codes associated with a crowd-sourced Internet of Things (IoT) device network to create a legal claim blockchain, integrating GPS, accelerometer, and other data sources to verify product history and enable transparent supply chain tracking.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If traditional tracking codes are used for products, then product identification is possible, but data association and supply chain transparency are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduct origin dataVSAvoidtracking system

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transitions from traditional one-dimensional tracking codes to multi-dimensional code matrices that can encode and associate extensive supply chain data, origin information, and verification credentials, thereby dramatically increasing information capacity without proportionally increasing system complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The tracking system is designed to serve multiple functions simultaneously: product identification, supply chain tracking, origin verification, and blockchain data association, replacing multiple separate systems with a unified multi-functional platform

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If IoT devices are deployed for supply chain tracking, then data collection and verification improve, but implementation cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesupply chain data verificationVSAvoidsystem implementation cost

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated self-verification through blockchain technology and smart contracts, where data integrity is maintained through decentralized consensus mechanisms rather than requiring expensive centralized verification infrastructure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts and separates the verification function into a independent blockchain layer, allowing the core tracking system to use simpler, lower-cost mechanisms while maintaining high reliability through the separate cryptographic verification layer

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Ease of operation

If search engines are used for product information, then accessibility is improved, but result accuracy and accountability deteriorate due to bias

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproduct information accessibilityVSAvoidsearch result accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces blockchain technology as an intermediary layer between product data and consumers, providing a trusted, tamper-proof verification mechanism that ensures search results reflect actual product origin and supply chain data rather than biased or manipulated information

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12517892B2Systems, methods, and devices to map to a distributed ledger using a search term

Publication Date: 2026.01.06 CIRCLESX LLC

AI summary

In one implementation, a method comprises: receiving, on a computing device, a search term for a search engine; and mapping to a distributed ledger based at least on the search term, wherein the distributed ledger is stored on one or more servers coupled to the computing device over one or more computer networks, and wherein the distributed ledger corresponds to augmented data associated with the search term.