ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,309, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to EtherMail GmbH (Vaduz, Liechtenstein).
"System and method of universal blockchain email address format" was invented by Shant Kevonian Perez (Barcelona, Spain) and Gerald Heydenreich (Frankfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes a method for facilitating secure communications from a sender to a recipient using a Blockchain Address via the Internet, comprising the steps of: receiving a blockchain wallet address and a signature from a sender's client; verifying the blockchain wallet address and the signature of the sender; providing the sender's client a first unique ...