ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,640, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TrofiVentures LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Hybrid control of digital asset private keys" was invented by Blake Love (Austin, Texas), Tiago Soromenho (Austin, Texas) and Michael (Mike) Love (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment provides for private key management for digital assets. A method provides a hosted digital wallet that mirrors at least a portion of data of a user digital wallet. The hosted digital wallet includes first data indicative of a first portion of a private key. The hosted digital wallet is associated with a smart contract storing second data indicative of at ...