US Patent Issued to Shopify on April 15 for "Methods and systems for usage-conditioned access control based on a blockchain wallet" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,547, issued on April 15, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Methods and systems for usage-conditioned access control based on a blockchain wallet" was invented by Chris Bacon (Calgary, Canada), Jamie Ly (Dresher, Pa.), Brent Marshall (Kitchener, Canada) and Sunghyun Lee (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for access control to online resources based on non-fungible token gating. A request from a user device may trigger an access control rule having a token-based condition. The system verifies satisfaction of the token-based condition based on a wallet address provided by the user device and blockchain data...