ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,399, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CUBE Security Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Access control interfaces for blockchains" was invented by Attila Marosi-Bauer (Urom, Hungary), Einaras von Gravrock (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Sean Tiernan (Arroyo Grande, Calif.) and Jonas Lekevicius (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access control server may store a private cryptographic key. The private cryptographic key corresponds to a public cryptographic key. The public cryptographic key is stored on a blockchain as part of an autonomous program protocol. The access control server may receive access control setting related to th...