ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,686, issued on Sept. 23.
"Method and system for conducting non-fiat currency transactions in a card infrastructure" was invented by Igor' Mihajlovich Goldovskij (Moscow).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention pertains to the method and system for the performance of non-fiat currency transactions within the card infrastructure. The technical result is to increase the security of transactions. The method for the payment instrument for settlement in cryptocurrency involves encryption of a part of the cryptocurrency transaction signature, the encryption key of which is known only to the payment instrument and the issuer, transmissi...