U.S. Patent 10673626 was awarded to SPYRUS, INC. on June 02, 2020 and is entitled “Threshold secret share authentication proof and secure blockchain voting with hardware security modules.” The first named inventor is Burton George Tregub of Encino, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

For an encryption-protected decentralized and replicated blockchain file storage system maintained and managed by a channel of peers, the invention creates the additional levels of trust that are needed for peer voter authentication and transaction proposal endorsement. The invention effectively excludes hostile agents from influencing or impersonating legitimate voter peers through the mathematical strength of the K-of-N mechanism based on secret sharing with cryptographic hashing. In a further embodiment an extension to nested signatures is disclosed to enforce signing order. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 31, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/237542 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10673626. The primary examiner was Michael R Vaughan.

SPYRUS, INC., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 22 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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