NChain Licensing AG Patent Application Trends in 2025

nChain Licensing AG patent applications in 2025

Top 10 Technology Areas

• H04L9/50 (TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication)
  • Count: 19 patents
  • Example: 20250038992. IMPLEMENTING A LAYER 2 TOKEN PROTOCOL USING A LAYER 1 BLOCKCHAIN (nChain Licensing AG)
• H04L9/3247 ({involving digital signatures})
  • Count: 8 patents
  • Example: 20250038992. IMPLEMENTING A LAYER 2 TOKEN PROTOCOL USING A LAYER 1 BLOCKCHAIN (nChain Licensing AG)
• H04L9/3239 ({involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD})
  • Count: 7 patents
  • Example: 20250047507. COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE PROVISION OF ACCESS TO A PLURALITY OF FUNCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH A BLOCKCHAIN (nChain Licensing AG)
• H04L9/30 (Public key, i.e. encryption algorithm being computationally infeasible to invert or user's encryption keys not requiring secrecy)
  • Count: 7 patents
  • Example: 20250021971. SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AVOIDING OR REDUCING CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY STRANDED RESOURCES ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06Q20/3825 ({Use of electronic signatures})
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: 20250069076. METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECIPIENT-FACILITATED BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS (nChain Licensing AG)
• H04L9/0637 ({Modes of operation, e.g. cipher block chaining [CBC], electronic codebook [ECB] or Galois/counter mode [GCM]})
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: 20250005542. METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVELY USING NETWORK CODING FOR PROPAGATING TRANSACTIONS IN A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06Q20/3829 ({involving key management})
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20250021971. SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AVOIDING OR REDUCING CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY STRANDED RESOURCES ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK (nChain Licensing AG)
• H04L9/0643 ({Hash functions, e.g. MD5, SHA, HMAC or f9 MAC})
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20250021971. SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AVOIDING OR REDUCING CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY STRANDED RESOURCES ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06Q20/389 ({Keeping log of transactions for guaranteeing non-repudiation of a transaction})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250069076. METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECIPIENT-FACILITATED BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS (nChain Licensing AG)
• H04L2209/56 (TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication)
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250021971. SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AVOIDING OR REDUCING CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY STRANDED RESOURCES ON A BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK (nChain Licensing AG)

Emerging Technology Areas

• H04L9/0869 ({involving random numbers or seeds})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250106011. GENERATING SHARED PRIVATE KEYS (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06Q20/36 (using electronic wallets or electronic money safes)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250104062. FORCING THE INJECTION OF A PREVIOUS TRANSACTION'S BYTECODE INTO A BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06F21/645 ({using a third party})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250104062. FORCING THE INJECTION OF A PREVIOUS TRANSACTION'S BYTECODE INTO A BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06F21/6209 ({to a single file or object, e.g. in a secure envelope, encrypted and accessed using a key, or with access control rules appended to the object itself})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250104062. FORCING THE INJECTION OF A PREVIOUS TRANSACTION'S BYTECODE INTO A BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06F8/31 ({Programming languages or programming paradigms})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250016012. BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS INCLUDING PORTIONS OF CODE IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FOR COMPLEX VALIDATION (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06F8/20 (Software design)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250016012. BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS INCLUDING PORTIONS OF CODE IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES FOR COMPLEX VALIDATION (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06Q20/38215 ({Use of certificates or encrypted proofs of transaction rights})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250053970. BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06F9/466 (Multiprogramming arrangements)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250053546. DATA STRUCTURE FOR ORPHAN TRANSACTIONS (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06F16/211 ({Schema design and management})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250053546. DATA STRUCTURE FOR ORPHAN TRANSACTIONS (nChain Licensing AG)
• G06Q20/405 ({Establishing or using transaction specific rules})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250088370. ENFORCING CONDITIONS ON BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS (nChain Licensing AG)

Top Inventors

• Craig Steven WRIGHT (8 patents)
• Wei ZHANG (5 patents)
• Ricky Charles RAND (4 patents)
• Simone MADEO (4 patents)
• Patrick MOTYLINSKI (4 patents)
• Stephane VINCENT (4 patents)
• Michaella PETTIT (4 patents)
• Giuseppe DESTEFANIS (3 patents)
• Enrique LARRAIA (3 patents)
• Andrew James MEE (2 patents)

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