U.S. Patent 11095446 was awarded to Anchor Labs, Inc. on August 17, 2021 and is entitled “Cryptoasset custodial system with different rules governing access to logically separated cryptoassets and proof-of-stake blockchain support.” The first named inventor is Diogo Monica of San Francisco, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods, and systems for secure storage and retrieval of information, such as private keys, useable to control access to a blockchain, include: receiving a request to take an action with respect to a vault of multiple different vaults in a cryptoasset custodial system, and each of the multiple different vaults has an associated policy map that defines vault control rules;authenticating, by a hardware security module, a policy map for the vault on which the action is requested based on a cryptographic key controlled by the hardware security module; checking the action against the policy map for the vault when the policy map for the vault is authenticated based on the cryptographic key controlled by the hardware security module; and effecting the action when the action is confirmed to be in accordance with the policy map for the vault. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 19, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/544740 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11095446. The primary examiner was Steven S Kim.

Anchor Labs, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 27 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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