Walmart's patent efforts have showcased how the retail giant is investigating blockchain, this time it's a project that sees a way for drones to talk.
Major Chinese and American firms are leading a global blockchain push, with Alibaba and IBM having filed around 90 patents each relating to the tech.
Shipping giant UPS has filed for a new patent that uses blockchain as part of a distributed system for sending packages worldwide.
In a patent filing released Thursday, Capital One set out a blockchain system its says allows secure user authentication across multiple platforms.
Coinbase is looking into creating more secure digital payment platforms to help merchants accept bitcoin, a patent filing reveals.
California-based business and financial software company Intuit has been awarded a patent for processing bitcoin payments via text message.
A team from one of the top universities in China has developed a decentralized exchange, not for crypto assets, but for unused electricity.
A team from China's Tsinghua University is patenting a way to store and share digital versions of culturally important objects using a blockchain.
ICBC, one of China's "Big Four" state-owned commercial banks, is seeking to patent a blockchain system to better execute financial asset transactions.
A new patent filing reveals Chinese e-commerce giant has been exploring the use of blockchain technology to speed up international payments.
The continuing efforts by China's central bank to build a fully-featured digital currency product are revealed in its many patent filings.
A major real estate brokerage in China is exploring how to provide definitive proof of a contract's time of signature using blockchain tech.
Retail giant Walmart is exploring a way to let households manage their electricity bills with prepayments in cryptocurrency.
A patent filing from Mastercard explores how to use public blockchains to securely verify card credentials at the point of sale.
China Mobile, one of China's three state-owned telecoms giants, is exploring moving part of its mobile data business to a distributed ledger.