US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Sept. 23 for "System and method for creating a secure mesh network utilizing the blockchain" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,683, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"System and method for creating a secure mesh network utilizing the blockchain" was invented by Austin Grant Walters (Savoy, Ill.), Jeremy Edward Goodsitt (Champaign, Ill.) and Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for providing a secure mesh network based on a cryptocurrency blockchain are provided. An electronic device can receive data from a mesh network to establish the device as a node on the mesh network. The established node can generate a cryptocurrency wallet that can be loaded with an amount of crypt...