U.S. Patent 10902388 was awarded to Robert Bosch GmbH on January 26, 2021 and is entitled “Method and device for adding transactions to a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Sven Trieflinger of Renningen, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method for adding transactions to a blockchain, characterized by the following features: subscribers of the computer network, who are connected by a predefined relation, are determined; multiplication triples are generated as a secret shared among the subscribers; at least one multiplication triple among the multiplication triples is mapped, along with the transactions, to a hash value; if the hash value falls below a predefined target value, a block, which contains the multiplication triple mapped to the hash value, as well as the transactions, is transferred to the blockchain; and a multiparty computation in the computer network is controlled with the remaining multiplication triples. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 23, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/987640 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10902388. The primary examiner was Neha Patel.

Robert Bosch GmbH, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 25242 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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