US Patent Issued to eBay on July 14 for "Security deposits using tokenized reputation scores" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,381, issued on July 14, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Security deposits using tokenized reputation scores" was invented by Shannon Bruce Vosseller (Zurich, Switzerland) and Andrew Chalkley (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to control access to transactions through use of security deposits based on tokenized reputation scores. This is performed by leveraging a blockchain such that tokenized reputation scores are generated based on amounts of cryptographic reputation tokens associated with blockchain account addresses associated with service pr...