ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,148, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Cryptocurrency wallet with risk attribution" was invented by Arkadiusz Kupiszowski (Ballymoney, Ireland), Damien Conroy (Dublin), Deepthy Muraleedharan (Dublin), Grzegorz Smorag (Dublin), Rob Levin (Leander, Texas) and Alan Moran (Glynn, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized system and method for securing a cryptocurrency wallet is provided. A transaction proposed by a user of a cryptocurrency wallet is intercepted and an address of counterparty is extracted from the transaction. If the address of the counterparty matches with an ...