U.S. Patent 10708243 was awarded to Capital One Services, LLC on July 07, 2020 and is entitled “Message encryption using public keychains.” The first named inventor is Austin Walters of Savoy, IL. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

To encrypt and distribute a message, a processor of a sender device may determine a public key associated with a recipient identifier. The processor may request confirmation of a the recipient identifier from a central authority server. The processor may receive the confirmation of the recipient identifier from the central authority server. The processor may encrypt the message using the public key to form an encrypted message. The processor may distribute the encrypted message. The encrypted message may be decipherable using a private key associated with the recipient identifier and used by a recipient device to securely interact with the distributed blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 24, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/960679 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10708243. The primary examiner was Kambiz Zand.

Capital One Services, LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2278 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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