US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on July 15 for "Systems and methods for controlling permissions in blockchains" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,155, issued on July 15, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for controlling permissions in blockchains" was invented by Mihir Vora (Glen Allen, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for controlling users' access to data available on blockchains are described herein, comprising: determining a first right for a first user to first data; determining a location in a permissioned blockchain comprising the first data, the location being a first fork of the permissioned blockchain; determining a first privilege required to access the first fork; determining that the first user corres...