U.S. Patent 10305833 was awarded to Turing Technology, Inc. on May 28, 2019 and is entitled “Blockchain based email procedures.” The first named inventor is Stewart MacGregor Dennis of Redwood City, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Systems and techniques are provided for managing and categorizing unsolicited emails from unknown senders using blockchain technology. In a specific implementation, an email authorization system authorizes emails from unknown senders to reach recipient email inboxes after the unknown senders validate the emails by executing blockchain transactions prompted by the email authorization system; else, the emails from unknown senders are not included in the recipient email inboxes. The blockchain transactions are recorded in a blockchain ledger in a blockchain network. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 03, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/723467 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10305833. The primary examiner was Longbit Chai.

Turing Technology, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 9 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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