U.S. Patent 11165862 was awarded to 0Chain, LLC on November 02, 2021 and is entitled “Systems and methods of blockchain platform for distributed applications.” The first named inventor is Thomas H. Austin of San Jose, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The systems and methods of a blockchain platform for distributed applications includes flexibility to implement a variety of client systems with a token usage and distributed computing based on separation of roles for a miner and a blobber. The message flow model between different parties including a client, a blobber and a miner allows for fast transactions on a lightweight blockchain by lightening the load on a mining network, i.e. a network of one or more miners. Offloading the work to a different group of machines allows for greater specialization in the design and specifications of the machines, allowing for the blockchain platform miners to be optimized for fast transaction handling and blockchain platform blobbers to be efficient at handling data for given transaction types. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 31, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/994946 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11165862. The primary examiner was Shawnchoy Rahman.

0Chain, LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 5 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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