U.S. Patent 10506104 was awarded to SAP SE on December 10, 2019 and is entitled “Identity verification using blockchain technology.” The first named inventor is Mehran Shakeri of Berlin, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Systems and methods for using blockchain technology for the purpose of securely identifying parties to a communication. The method may comprise receiving a request to establish a communications connection between a first entity and a second entity in a telephony environment and writing a first digital identity associated with the first entity to a first data block in an immutable chain of blocks, in response to determining that the first entity is recognizable as a trusted entity. The blocks may be associated according to a defined cryptographic relationship. A second digital identity associated with the second entity may be written to a second data block in the immutable chain of blocks, in response to determining that the second entity is unrecognizable as a trusted entity. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 28, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/203514 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10506104. The primary examiner was Gary Lafontant.

SAP SE, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 3844 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 30 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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