US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 2 for "Sharing and requesting private data using cryptography" (New York, Georgia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,513, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Sharing and requesting private data using cryptography" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.), Xiaoguang Zhu (New York) and Samuel Rapowitz (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein for an access control system that may receive, from a device associated with a cryptography-based storage application, a blockchain operation request. The blockchain operation request may include an identifier of a cryptographic token (e.g., non-fungible token) that may store encrypted verification data encrypted us...