Goldman Sachs’ Sole Crypto-Currency Patent
Goldman Sachs seems to have a single patent (U.S. Patent 9,704,143) directed to crypto-currency. The patent claims aggregating “a cryptographic currency representing a security” to obtain the same security with a bigger value. The specification gives the example that “100 individual IBM [cryptographic currency] ( i.e. , each worth 1 IBM share) can be aggregated by the described technology into a single IBM [cryptographic currency] having a ‘face value’ of 100 IBM shares. ” Claim 1 of the patent reads as follows: 1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device having contents adapted to cause a programmed computer system to perform operations comprising: receiving, from a source computing node in a network, one or more electronic transaction messages, wherein the one or more electronic transaction messages include at least transaction information and a digital signature of the source computing node, wherein the transaction information includes at ...