U.S. Patent 11139955 was awarded to Winklevoss IP, LLC on October 05, 2021 and is entitled “Systems, methods, and program products for loaning digital assets and for depositing, holding and/or distributing collateral as a token in the form of digital assets on an underlying blockchain.” The first named inventor is Cameron Howard Winklevoss of New York, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The present invention relates to a method, system, and program product for depositing, holding and/or distributing collateral in the form of a stable value token for a security token, the tokens being on the same underlying blockchain. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods, systems and program products for lending digital assets, such as crypto currency, and related products. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 20, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/280788 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11139955. The primary examiner was Chinedu C Agwumezie.

Winklevoss IP, LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 37 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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