Systems, devices, and methods for providing supply chain and ethical sourcing information on a product

Abstract

A system is provided for authenticating an origin of a cosmetic product, including: processing circuitry configured to receive occurrence information of a handling operation from each point in a manufacturing and distribution chain of the cosmetic product; output a result of a block chain operation to signify that each predetermined point in the manufacturing and distribution chain of the cosmetic product has provided occurrence information of a handling operation; receive code information, from a packaging location in the manufacturing and distribution chain, which corresponds to code information applied to a packaging of the cosmetic product, store the code information received from the packaging location in association with the block chain result; receive information from a user device inquiring about the cosmetic product; and output information about the cosmetic product to the mobile user device in response to the received information.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.