Wizards of the Coast filed 1 patent application across 1 category: Esports (1). The filing covers technology for establishing set-level provenance for trading cards by scanning unique physical characteristics of a card's substrate or ink.
This approach allows entire tournament decks or trades to be authenticated as a single set, with fingerprints linked together and registered alongside tournament history data.
Wizards of the Coast's single Esports patent tackles a longstanding problem in competitive card game authentication by moving beyond individual card tracking. The system scans physical markers like substrate texture or ink patterns to create digital fingerprints, then binds multiple cards together into one authenticated set. When a player registers a tournament deck or completes a trade, the entire collection becomes a single verified object rather than a collection of separate items. Tournament results and media coverage can then attach directly to that registered set, creating a permanent record that acknowledges the relationships between cards rather than treating each one as an isolated collectible.
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