US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on March 24 for "Managing blockchain access" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,362, issued on March 24, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Managing blockchain access" was invented by Gunjan Vijayvergia (San Antonio) and Steven J. Schroeder (Oak Point, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for managing access to data stored in a blockchain, and for managing the communication of blockchain data to other entities. A private key may be generated and issued to an external entity to enable the external entity to access an internal (e.g., private blockchain). The external entity may be an external (e.g., public) blockchain, device, process, or user th...