U.S. Patent 9870591 was awarded to Netspective Communications LLC on January 16, 2018 and is entitled “Distributed electronic document review in a blockchain system and computerized scoring based on textual and visual feedback.” The first named inventor is Shahid N. Shah of Silver Spring, MD. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A blockchain configured system and a method for facilitating an expertise driven review and scoring of electronic documents in a crowdsourced environment. The system includes a server computer, a memory circuit and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is coupled to the memory circuit and includes or is coupled to a credentialing engine. The system further includes an expert scoring module. The system further includes a document reviewing and scoring engine coupled to the processing circuit. The document review and scoring module associates an aggregate score to the electronic document based on aggregation of the review ratings by crowdsourced experts and aggregate scores of each of the crowdsourced experts based on the set of attributes including one or more of the credentialed expertise, reputation of the expert, and the officiality. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 21, 2016  as U.S. Patent Application 15/386846 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 9870591. The primary examiner was Gerardo Araque, Jr..

Netspective Communications LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 19 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 12 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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