US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for preventing communications with malicious cryptography-based storage application addresses using consensus" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,962, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for preventing communications with malicious cryptography-based storage application addresses using consensus" was invented by Hazar Alsahnawi (McLean, Va.), Austin Erickson (Herndon, Va.), Shannon Yogerst (New York), Dan Lin (Arlington, Va.), John E. Jones IV (Alexandria, Va.) and Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for preventing blockchain functions associated with malicious entities are disclosed herein. A first blockchain status update may be received from a first authorizing entit...