US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Self-aware cryptocurrency wallets" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,650, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Self-aware cryptocurrency wallets" was invented by Shashank Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.), Cyril Guyot (San Jose, Calif.) and Evan Drake (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices described herein can configure a cryptocurrency wallet or other blockchain-based account to be self-aware and alert the owner of the wallet to one or more potentially fraudulent situations occurring with at least one account they own. The wallet may be a hardware-based cryptocurrency wallet or may be a blockchain-based account op...