Bank of America has filed for a patent for a settlement system citing the Ripple ledger, according to a filing on Google Patents.
The patent in question - the application of which was published on June 6 - describes a system using distributed ledger technology as an interbank communication tool.
The proposed system would enable real-time settlement with transactions being communicated through a shared, decentralized ledger to which both the banks would have access.
The decentralized network would both verify the identity of the payer and the payee and enable communication between the institutions.
Notably, multiple illustrations included in the patent explicitly cite Ripple DLT. Ripple's base asset and proposed settlement gateway asset XRP is not mentioned in the patent.
In June, news broke that Siam Commercial Bank, Thailand's largest commercial bank, denied any plans to start using Ripple's XRP token, contrary to earlier indications.
The denial came after the bank tweeted that an "XRP system will be announced soon" on June 5.
As Cointelegraph reported earlier this month, Ripple incubator and investment arm Xpring has distributed $500 million to over 20 XRP projects - including the blockchain-based gaming platform Forte - since its launch in May 2018.
The aim of the incubator is to fund the development of use cases for Ripple's XRP token.
Bank of America Files Patent for Settlement System Citing Ripple
Published on Jul 21, 2019
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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