MUMBAI, India, June 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631069879 A) filed by Asansol Engineering College on June 04, 2026, for “blockchain-Based Java Academic Certificate Verification System”.
Inventors include Dr. Vedatrayee Chatterjee; Dr. Sambit S Mondal; and Sumanta Karmakar.
The application for the patent was published on June 19, 2026, under issue no. 25/2026.
Abstract: Abstract A secure, tamper-resistant academic certificate issuance and decentralized verification system utilizes a distributed ledger framework integrated with an object- oriented Java-based enterprise backend server architecture. The application server ingests structured academic credential metadata, executes a secure one-way hashing algorithm (SHA-256) to derive a unique deterministic cryptographic fingerprint representing the record, and commits this hash value to an immutable decentralized blockchain ledger. Upon block confirmation, a unique transaction identifier is returned and translated into an optically scannable high-density QR code matrix, which is embedded into the generated portable document format (PDF) certificate. Downstream auditing entities scan the QR code to fetch the ledgered state, which is automatically compared bitwise against a newly computed runtime hash of the presented credential. The system eliminates single-points-of-failure, thwarts document forgery, protects user privacy, and enables instant, zero-trust cryptographic validation without centralized database intermediaries.
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