US Patent Issued to NCHAIN LICENSING on May 13 for "Accessing an internet of things device using blockchain metadata" (British, Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,573, issued on May 13, was assigned to NCHAIN LICENSING AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Accessing an internet of things device using blockchain metadata" was invented by Stephane Vincent (Luxembourg) and Craig Steven Wright (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The computer-implemented invention provides a method and corresponding system for controlling access to and/or use of an internet-enabled resource. The invention uses an electronic ledger such as, for example, the Bitcoin blockchain. The resource may be an IoT device or system. Access to the resource is permitted or enabled upon provision of a cryptographic key e.g., a private key wh...