ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,451, issued on March 18, was assigned to OX Labs Inc. (Los Angeles).
"System and method for rendering virtual currency related services" was invented by George Melika (Los Angeles) and Akbar Thobhani (South San Francisco, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technique introduced here relates to virtual currency related services, and more specifically, to tools for providing crypto or other digital currency (e.g. bitcoin) related services, including bitcoin DNS service, sending bitcoins over social media communication networks, a bitcoin trading platform and secure storage services for bitcoin."
The patent was filed on June 17, 201...