ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,059, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Cryptocurrency storage distribution" was invented by Manu Kurian (Dallas) and Joseph Castinado (Northglenn, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform having at least one processor, a memory, and a communication interface may receive, via the communication interface, a transaction request from a participant. The computing platform may identify a user and one or more linked digital wallets associated with the transaction request. The computing platform then may execute an algorithm for comparing the transaction request to predetermined cri...