U.S. Patent 10992454 was awarded to Disney Enterprises, Inc. on April 27, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain configuration for secure content delivery.” The first named inventor is Derek L. Prestegard of Los Angeles, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A process receives, from a registration server associated with a content playback environment, a playback system identifier and a public key. The playback system identifier and the public key correspond to a playback system. Further, the process generates a blockchain corresponding to a content identifier such that a block is established to correspond to the playback system identifier. In addition, the process encrypts, with the processor according to a content encryption key, content associated with the content identifier. The process also encrypts, with the public key, the content encryption key. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 22, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/986729 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10992454. The primary examiner was Khoi V Le.

Disney Enterprises, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2277 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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