ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,688, issued on Dec. 30.

"System for disclosing deposit account information that can be virtual currency address" was invented by Ken Tsuboi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object is to present a technical solution for a bank to disclose information on a deposit account directly to a third party. The owner of a virtual currency address or real-currency deposit account provides a disclosure key to a disclosee (third party). The third party accesses a disclosure server 6 by operating a disclosee terminal 7, and transmits a disclosure request with the disclosure key. The disclosure server 6 accesses to an opener bank server 1, ...