ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,070, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Blockchain security system" was invented by Yue Li (Foster City, Calif.), Theodore Harris (Foster City, Calif.) and Tatiana Korolevskaya (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first node on the blockchain storage system node may include data from other blocks on the blockchain used for blockchain verification and an additional node which may include an analysis element. The analysis element may include computer executable code for receiving data added to the blockchain, determining a risk score for the data added to the blo...