ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,438, issued on April 1, was assigned to Coinbase Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for facilitating secure authentication when conducting blockchain operations using cryptography-based, storage applications" was invented by Cassandra Alexandria Heart (Wichita, Kan.), Peter Jihoon Kim (Oakland, Calif.), Ben Schreck (Oakland, Calif.), Olivia Thet (Oakland, Calif.), Jonathan Ariel Bergknoff (Richardson, Texas), Ankit Chiplunkar (Oakland, Calif.), Ethan Leland (Oakland, Calif.) and Trevor Aron (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system for managing partial private keys for cryptography-based, storage ap...