Sony, the Japanese electronics behemoth, has filed a patent involving the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as part of in-game mechanics. Sony’s patent describes the usage of a “Super-Fungible Token,” an amalgamation of a set of gaming assets, allowing the selection of only one of them per time in the gaming implementation. Sony Files Patent…
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The DeFi Education Fund says a patent owned by True Return Systems is being used to try to profit from lawsuits against decentralized protocols. A decentralized finance (DeFi) advocacy body has petitioned the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to review a patent owned by a company it has accused of being a a…
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U.K.-based research company Quantum Blockchain Technologies has developed algorithmic search methods that boost Bitcoin mining efficiency and reward probability. Quantum Blockchain Technologies (QBT) — a research company based in the United Kingdom — has developed artificial intelligence (AI)-powered algorithms that could significantly increase the mining winning probability of certain ASIC Bitcoin (BTC) miners, its CEO…
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Entertainment and gaming giant Sony has filed for a patent to make non-fungible tokens (NFTs) transferable and usable between various games, devices, and consoles. The patent filed last week states:… Read More: Gaming Giant Sony Files Patent to Enable NFT Transferability Across Games and Consoles Read more »Sign up for e-EUR – the progressive stablecoin
Coinbase will help COPA on its journey of defending against patent overreach. The Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, or COPA, headed up by finance company Square, recently picked up Coinbase as a cornerstone participant. Square unveiled the group in September as a method of warding off patent overreach — an issue that has been known to…
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Block.one has patented monetizing every post on a social media network using tokenized bidding and blockchain-based analysis to determine a post’s originality Block.one, the company behind the EOSIO protocol (EOS), has been awarded a patent for a blockchain-based bidding system for promotional exposure tied to popular social media posts. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office…
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