PayPal was granted a patent for differential client-side encryption.

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  "company": {
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    "domain": "paypal.com"
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    "summary": "PayPal was granted a patent for differential client-side encryption.",
    "event_at": "2026-10-27",
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    "patent_title": "Differential client-side encryption of information originating from a client",
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    "uspto_assignee": "PayPal, Inc.",
    "patent_abstract": "A method may include allocating a number of public keys, where each respective public key is allocated to a respective entity of a number of entities; storing a number of private keys, where each respective private corresponds to a respective public key; storing one or more decryption algorithms, where each respective decryption algorithm is configured to decrypt data previously encrypted using at least one encryption algorithm of the encryption algorithms. Each respective encryption algorithm may be configured to encrypt data using at least one public key. Each respective decryption algorithm may be configured to decrypt data using at least one private key. The method may include receiving encrypted data, where the encrypted data is encrypted using a first public key and a first encryption algorithm, and the encrypted data is provided over a network.",
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curl https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/signals/22cae07c-3edc-5fff-850d-813492261cdd \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"

curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"paypal.com","limit":20}'