U.S. Patent 10389518 was awarded to ENTIT SOFTWARE LLC on August 20, 2019 and is entitled “Blockchain hash value recomputation.” The first named inventor is Liqun Chen of Bristol, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A blockchain includes blocks that each store a hash value computed using a hash function from data of the block. Another hash value is computed for each block using a different hash function, and added to the block within the blockchain. New blocks subsequently added to the blockchain have hash values computed using just the different hash function. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 27, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/418533 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10389518. The assistant examiner was Zhimei Zhu.

ENTIT SOFTWARE LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 239 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 7 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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