US Patent Issued to THE EVEREST PROJECT on Feb. 18 for "Method and apparatus for using cryptocurrency gift cards" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,590, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to THE EVEREST PROJECT LLC (Youngstown, Ohio).

"Method and apparatus for using cryptocurrency gift cards" was invented by Justin Fortuna (Poland, Ohio), Michael Owens (Canfield, Ohio) and Allen C. Conti (Canfield, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and processes for faster and more efficient creation of NFTs while further enhancing the use and transferability of digital assets along with, or in conjunction with, tangible goods and other physical real world assets; methods for securing personal keys that allow for improved security of the physical key while simultaneously providing for tra...