U.S. Patent 10535062 was awarded to Capital One Services, LLC on January 14, 2020 and is entitled “Using a contactless card to securely share personal data stored in a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Jeffrey RULE of Chevy Chase, MD. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to securely share data stored in a blockchain. A contactless card may receive a request to provide a data element from a device. An applet of the contactless card may encrypt the data element and a wallet address. The applet may generate a signature for the request, and transmit, to a mobile device, the signature and the encrypted data. The mobile device may transmit, to a verification service, the signature and encrypted data. The verification service may verify the signature based on a public key. A node in a blockchain may generate a block in the blockchain, the block comprising indications of the verification of the signature, the requested data element, and the wallet address. An encrypted data element corresponding to the data element may be decrypted using a public key. The device may receive the decrypted data element from the wallet address. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 20, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/359980 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10535062. The primary examiner was Steven S Kim.

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 3 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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