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US 2025/0061189 A1Published application
Secure environment public register (sepr)
AssigneeP4 X Group, Inc.
InventorsRobert William Kocher, Douglas Earl Dyer, John Shelly Bowling, II
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Abstract
A Secure Environment Public Register (SEPR) provides a method and system that allows precious metals in the shape of bar(s) or units to be certified, specially numbered to provide exact linkage to an owner, allow secure movement of precious metals between secure facilities, and though Blockchain allow secure transfer of ownership between individuals and organizations. The SEPR allows gold and other precious metals to be easily held and traded in commerce with all the advantages of holding precious metals. The SEPR system allows exact audits of the metal bars on hand and avoids over-selling units since each bar is serialized and ownership is documented in a public register.
Claims38
1-6. (canceled)
A system comprising:
- a physically secure environment configured to receive precious metal thereto and release the precious metal therefrom;
- and
- a precious metal registration system configured to record
- precious metal identification information,
- physically secure location information of precious metal, and
- certification information and de-processing information of precious metal;
- the system further configured to receive precious metal into the physically secure environment by
- inspecting, within the physically secure environment, a quality of the received precious metal,
- processing, within the physically secure environment, the precious metal into a standard uniform characteristic, and
- certifying, within the physically secure environment, a quality value of the processed precious metal, and
- registering the certified precious metal in the standard uniform characteristic in the precious metal registration system by
- providing a registration indicia on one of the registered precious metal or a container containing the registered precious metal, and
- entering a corresponding registration record including the precious metal identification information and certification information in a precious metal registration database of the precious metal registration system;
- and
- the system further configured to release registered precious metal of the standard uniform characteristic from the physically secure environment.
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A system comprising:
- a physically secure environment configured to receive precious metal thereto, retain the precious metal therein, and release the precious metal therefrom;
- and
- a precious metal registration system configured to record
- precious metal identification information,
- ownership status information and ownership information of precious metal,
- location information of precious metal, and
- certification information and de-processing information of precious metal;
- the system further configured to receive precious metal into the physically secure environment by
- inspecting, within the physically secure environment, a quality of the received precious metal,
- processing, within the physically secure environment, the precious metal into a standard uniform characteristic, and
- certifying, within the physically secure environment, a quality value of the processed precious metal, and
- registering the certified precious metal in the standard uniform characteristic in the precious metal registration system by
- providing a registration indicia on one of the registered precious metal or a container containing the registered precious metal, and
- entering a corresponding registration record including the precious metal identification information and certification information in a precious metal registration database of the precious metal registration system;
- the system further configured to retain and manage precious metal within the physically secure environment by
- assigning an owner-unassigned registered precious metal of the standard uniform characteristic to an owner and updating the ownership status information with the assigned registered precious metal of the standard uniform characteristic in the precious metal registration system with ownership information of the owner;
- and
- the system further configured to release registered precious metal of the standard uniform characteristic from the physically secure environment.
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A system comprising:
- a physically secure environment configured to receive precious metal thereto and release the precious metal therefrom;
- and
- a precious metal registration system configured to record
- precious metal identification information,
- location information of precious metal, and
- certification information and de-processing information;
- the system further configured to receive precious metal into the physically secure environment by
- inspecting, within the physically secure environment, a quality of the received precious metal,
- processing, within the physically secure environment, the precious metal into a standard uniform characteristic, and
- certifying, within the physically secure environment, a quality value of the processed precious metal,
- registering the certified precious metal in the standard uniform characteristic in the precious metal registration system by
- providing a registration indicia on one of the registered precious metal or a container containing the registered precious metal, and
- entering a corresponding registration record including the precious metal identification information and the certification information in a precious metal registration database of the precious metal registration system;
- and
- the system further configured to release registered precious metal of the standard uniform characteristic from the physically secure environment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.