ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,443, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Secure control of transactions using blockchain" was invented by David John Kamalsky (Campbell, Calif.), Vidit Aggarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Seyed-Mahdi Pedramrazi (San Jose, Calif.), Ethan Benjamin Rubinson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sachin Tilloo (Fremont, Calif.) and Sergio Pinzon Gonzales Jr. (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are shown for controlling a transaction on a blockchain. A first block is created on a blockchain for a transaction involving a seller entity associated with a first key, a buyer entity associated with a second key...