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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2018
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
James B. Snyder, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Justin M. Johnson, Hudson, WI (US);
James W. Howard, Circle Pines, MN (US);
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
The disclosure is directed to an article, such as a pathway article or a sheeting. The article includes a physical surface having a code embodied thereon. The code is associated with pathway information in transaction data stored by a blockchain managed by a consensus network of node. The pathway information indicates one or more characteristics of a vehicle pathway, wherein the pathway information provides at least one of: information descriptive of at least a portion of the vehicle pathway, or vehicle operation instructions associated with the portion of the vehicle pathway.