ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,443, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tangem AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Wearable device for secure signing of blockchain transactions" was invented by Andrey Kurennykh (Amsterdam), Denis Volokitin (Erevan, Armenia), Andrew Lazutkin (Lisbon, Portugal) and Mikhail Lyashch (Lisbon, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein a wearable authentication device of a user for secure signing of blockchain transactions and methods for use thereof. The wearable authentication device includes a tamper-resistant chipset comprising: a transceiver configurable to receive, from a mobile device (e.g., a smartphone), a request for a digital...