ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,532, issued on July 21.

"Smart contract enabled user account access" was invented by Pierce Harger (Chicago), Hannah Jin (Campbell, Calif.), Wilson Cusack (Sedgwick, Colo.), Michael Stephen de Hoog (Kailua, Hawaii) and Santosh Shashank Nagaral (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for smart contract enabled user account access are described. A client application transmits, to a custodial token platform, a request to use a first amount of tokens associated with a user account at the custodial token platform for transacting with a blockchain address via a blockchain network. The client application...