U.S. Patent 10812270 was awarded to Citizen Hex Inc. on October 20, 2020 and is entitled “Techniques for increasing the probability that a transaction will be included in a target block of a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Benjamin Mark Roberts of Toronto, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed embodiments include techniques to increase the probability that network validators will include a specific transaction in a target block of a blockchain. The method includes creating and signing in real-time a transaction and loading copies of the transaction at agent nodes connected to a network of peer nodes. An agent node can obtain an indication of an opportunity to write the transaction to a target block. The method can further include broadcasting the transaction to the network of peer nodes based on the obtained indication of the opportunity to write the transaction, to improve a probability of having the transaction written to the target block. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 06, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/947511 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10812270. The primary examiner was Catherine Thiaw.

Citizen Hex Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1 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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