ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,447, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CipherTrace Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and processes for generating a single cryptocurrency address mapping space for a plurality of cryptocurrencies by clustering" was invented by Shannon Holland (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for generating a single cryptocurrency address mapping space for a plurality of cryptocurrencies including a global map of activity for the plurality of cryptocurrencies by clustering different addresses used in separate cryptocurrency transactions that are controlled by a same individual or entity are disclosed. Some embodimen...