ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,699, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for conditional distribution of aggregated cryptographic data based on a trigger" was invented by Kevin Osborn (Newton Highlands, Mass.), Jeffrey Rule (Chevy Chase, Md.) and Samuel Rapowitz (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for handling on-chain cryptographic resources based on conditions generated responsive to an off-chain trigger. The system may receive a transfer request that includes a resource allocation request, generate a first blockchain function request for a list of contributor identifiers and ...