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Patents covering blockchain and registration via chatbot — Verisign gets

Patents covering blockchain and registration via chatbot — Verisign gets

Domain registry expands on previous patents with three fresh patents granted today.

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted three patents to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN() today.

Patent number 11,621,939 (pdf) is for Domain name suggestion and registration via chatbot and claims priority to a patent granted last year.

Patent number 11,621,829 (pdf) is for Domain name blockchain user addresses and is a continuation of a prior patent. The firm has filed a number of blockchain-related patents.

Patent number 11,621,940 (pdf) is for Systems, devices, and methods for generating a domain name using a user in interface and is a continuation of prior applications.

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