Bank of America Files Patent Application for Cryptocurrency-Mediated Wire Transfers

The Bank of America Tower in New York City. Bank of America has filed a patent with the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for a system of wire transfers using cryptocurrency. Published 17th September, the patent describes a system in which funds are sent between accounts using cryptocurrency technology. The word "blockchain" or "block chain" does not appear in the patent. Thomas Edward Durbin and James Gregory Ronca, authors of the filing, state: "Enterprises handle a large number of foreign wire transfer requests on a daily basis. As technology advances, foreign transactions have....

Bank of America's filing for a patent for a bitcoin wire transfer system last year was published by the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on September 17, 2015. The patent seeks to protect a cryptocurrency wire transfer system in which funds sent by a customer electronically could be transferred using the blockchain of the underlying cryptocurrency. In particular, the bitcoin wire transfer system would convert the sender's funds at a cryptocurrency exchange then sent to another cryptocurrency exchange to be converted to foreign fiat currency before the funds are received. Bank of....

The US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has published a patent filed by US financial services giant Bank of America that seeks to protect a system for wire transfers using cryptocurrency technology. The patent, filed on 17th March, 2014, and published 17th September, seeks to protect a system by which electronic funds could be sent between customer accounts using the underlying blockchain of a given cryptocurrency as the rails for payment. The system described, for example, would enable customer funds to be converted at a cryptocurrency exchange and then sent to a second cryptocurrency....

The US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) published 10 patent applications yesterday that were filed by Bank of America in June of last year. The list of proposals includes a "real-time conversion system", a "cryptocurrency transaction payment system" and a "cryptocurrency suspicious user alert system". Patent applications for offline storage, "risk detection" and transaction validation were also published, among others. To date, Bank of America has submitted 11 patent applications related to cryptocurrencies, suggesting that the firm may be looking to build, or at least conceptualize, a....

10 new patent publications filed by Bank of America have been published by the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week. The bank's patent applications were filed in June, last year. The USPTO has published 10 patent applications filed by Bank of America in relation to cryptocurrencies. The original filing was done in June 2014 and the 10 new applications add to an existing filing for a wire transfer system involving cryptocurrencies by Bank of America, published in September. While the bank's official plans or endeavors with cryptocurrencies are still unknown, the following....