ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,438, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Coinbase Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for entity labeling based on behavior" was invented by Alex Reeve (San Francisco), Harrison Dahme (Stateline, Nev.), Linwei Chen (New York), Akash Shah (Oakland, Calif.), Ming Jiang (Foster City, Calif.), Sid Shekhar (London) and Zhicong Liang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems use a second dataset comprising independently validated data based on labeled blockchain operations previously processed through the blockchain network. The use of the second dataset in conjunction with the dataset comprising labeled blockchai...