US Patent Issued to NTT on May 19 for "Electronic currency system, information processing apparatus, electronic currency issuing method and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,840, issued on May 19, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Electronic currency system, information processing apparatus, electronic currency issuing method and program" was invented by Tsunekazu Saito (Tokyo), Fumitaka Hoshino (Tokyo) and Masayuki Abe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic currency system including an issue bank server and a financial institution server, wherein the issue bank server includes a currency issue certificate issue unit that generates a currency issue certificate and transmits the generated currency issue certificate to the financial institution server, and a currency issue unit that adds a sig...