US Patent Issued to VeriSign on June 16 for "Lifecycle administration of domain name blockchain addresses" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,131, issued on June 16, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Lifecycle administration of domain name blockchain addresses" was invented by Andrew Kaizer (Arlington, Va.) and Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer products for administering the association of a network identifier with a blockchain address for a blockchain enable operations that may include obtaining, by an authoritative record entity, an initiation of an administrative action regarding an association of the network identifier with the blockchain address, wherein the administrative action comprises at least o...