{"id":369,"date":"2018-01-16T20:20:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=369"},"modified":"2018-01-16T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:20:56","slug":"bofa-tops-ibm-payments-firms-with-most-blockchain-patents-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"BofA Tops IBM, Payments Firms With Most Blockchain Patents &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Bank of America Corp. may not be willing to help customers invest in Bitcoin, but that doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t plowing into the technology underlying the cryptocurrency.The Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender has applied for or received at least 43 patents for blockchain, the ledger technology used for verifying and recording transactions that\u2019s at the heart of virtual currencies. It is the largest number among major banks and technology companies, according to a study by EnvisionIP, a New York-based law firm that specializes in analyses of intellectual property.\u201cBased on what\u2019s publicly out there, the technology sector hasn\u2019t embraced blockchain as much as the financial-services industry,\u201d Maulin Shah, managing attorney for EnvisionIP, said in an interview.International Business Machines Corp., which has targeted blockchain and artificial intelligence for future growth, tied with Mastercard Inc. for second on the list, with 27 each.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-16\/bofa-tops-ibm-and-payments-firms-with-most-blockchain-patents\">BofA Tops IBM, Payments Firms With Most Blockchain Patents &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of America Corp. may not be willing to help customers invest in Bitcoin, but that doesn\u2019t mean it isn\u2019t plowing into the technology underlying the cryptocurrency.The Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender has applied for or received at least 43 patents for blockchain, the ledger technology used for verifying and recording transactions that\u2019s at the heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}