US Patent Issued to GEN DIGITAL on March 25 for "Systems and methods for identifying security threats in smart contract-based services to protect against malicious attacks utilizing off-blockchain resources" (Irish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,970, issued on March 25, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for identifying security threats in smart contract-based services to protect against malicious attacks utilizing off-blockchain resources" was invented by David Luz Silva (Dublin) and Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying security threats in smart contract-based services to protect against malicious attacks utilizing off-blockchain resources may include (i) identifying a reference associated with a transaction on a smart contract-based platform, (ii) ...