U.S. Patent 11093911 was awarded to PAYPAL, INC. on August 17, 2021 and is entitled “Systems, methods, and computer program products providing an identity-storing browser.” The first named inventor is Frank Anthony Nuzzi of Pflugerville, TX. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method includes: communicating data from a browser, operating on a computing device, to an electronic shopping cart during a transaction; receiving user-authenticating data from a user interface of the computing device; decrypting secure user data stored to the computing device; authenticating a user based on the user-authenticating data and the decrypted secure user data; in response to authenticating the user, transmitting an indication of payment from the browser to the electronic shopping cart; processing the transaction after transmitting the indication of payment; and recording the transaction in a blockchain stored on the computing device. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 28, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/146283 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11093911. The assistant examiner was Chenyuh Kuo.

PAYPAL, INC., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1571 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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