U.S. Patent 11063767 was awarded to FUJITSU LIMITED on July 13, 2021 and is entitled “Apparatus and method to perform secure data sharing in a distributed network by using a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Toru Katagiri of Kawasaki, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An apparatus serves as a node device included in a distributed data sharing network, and shares, by using a blockchain, a piece of event information related to an event generated in a terminal, among node devices included in the distributed data sharing network, where the blockchain is a continuously growing list of blocks which are linked and secured using cryptography. The apparatus generates a piece of event data including the piece of event information related to the event, and causes the generated piece of event data to be stored in one of the node devices included in the distributed data sharing network. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 27, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/795800 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11063767. The primary examiner was Luu T Pham.

FUJITSU LIMITED, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 39228 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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