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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2023
Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US);
Jesse James Godley, Charlotte, NC (US);
Taylor Farris, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Trish Gillis, Chicago, IL (US);
Bank of America Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US);
Abstract
Systems for using bifurcated non-fungible tokens for transaction approval are provided. Systems may include a blockchain, a memory and a processor. The processor may, in a pre-approval stage: mint an identity block for each approver included in a plurality of approvers, upload each identity block to the blockchain and assign a non-fungible token to each approver. The processor may, in an approval stage: receive a file for approval; label the file with a file identifier; identify a subset of approvers for file approval; mint an approval block including the file identifier and an entry slot for each non-fungible token associated with each approver included include in the subset; initiate an approval process by the subset of approvers; receive the non-fungible token that identifies the approver; place each received token within an entry slot of the approval block; upload the approval block to a blockchain; validate the approval block and close the approval block.