ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,638, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CIRCLE INTERNET FINANCIAL LLC (Boston).

"Securely embedding messages in transaction records in blockchain systems" was invented by Mira Belenkiy (Boston) and Gordon Liao (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for securely embedding messages in transaction records in a blockchain system. An example method generally includes receiving a request to perform a transaction on a blockchain. Generally, the request includes a message payload describing the transaction and an indication of an amount of a token to transfer from a source wallet...