US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Nov. 25 for "Anonymous non-fungible token transfer using private blockchain" (Massachusetts, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,408, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Anonymous non-fungible token transfer using private blockchain" was invented by Peter Tanski (Marlborough, Mass.), Austin Erickson (Herndon, Va.), Christopher Wu (Ashburn, Va.) and Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for protecting the privacy of parties conducting Non-Fungible Token (NFT) transfers by conducting separate NFT transactions on a private blockchain separate from a public blockchain. An issuer and recipient may generate a token secret, and the issuer may ...