U.S. Patent 11157887 was awarded to BITACCESS INC. on October 26, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain-based transaction kiosk.” The first named inventor is Nathaniel Wood of Ottawa, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The systems and methods described herein provide for facilitating in-person payments at a transaction kiosk. First, the system provides an authentication interface for display at a network-enabled transaction kiosk. A user is authenticated at the kiosk via the authentication interface, and based on that authentication, the system detects a payment application and a payment request corresponding to the user, wherein the payment application is associated with a service provider and the payment request was created with the payment application. Next, the system identifies a user interface scheme associated with the payment application, and then updates the user interface for display at the transaction kiosk to match the user interface scheme, then initiates a blockchain payment based on the payment request. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 11, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 17/120046 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11157887. The primary examiner was Garcia Ade.

BITACCESS INC., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1 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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