US Patent Issued to FMR on Dec. 2 for "Address verification, seed splitting and firmware extension for secure cryptocurrency key backup, restore, and transaction signing platform apparatuses, methods and systems" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,340, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"Address verification, seed splitting and firmware extension for secure cryptocurrency key backup, restore, and transaction signing platform apparatuses, methods and systems" was invented by Vladimir Tsitrin (Acton, Mass.) and Gang Cheng (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The Address Verification, Seed Splitting and Firmware Extension for Secure Cryptocurrency Key Backup, Restore, and Transaction Signing Platform Apparatuses, Methods and Systems ("SFTSP") transforms contract deployment request, transaction signing request, key backup request, key recovery request input...