U.S. Patent 10936302 was awarded to VOLVO CAR CORPORATION on March 02, 2021 and is entitled “Updating sub-systems of a device using blockchain.” The first named inventor is Andreas Martin Viktor Ropel of Gothenburg, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

In general, techniques are described by which provide a technique for securely updating sub-systems of a device. A device includes multiple sub-systems including a first sub-system and a second sub-system. Each sub-system includes one or more processors. One or more processors of the first sub-system may be configured to perform the techniques herein. The one or more processors of the first sub-system are configured to download, from one or more nodes of a network, a sub-system update for the second sub-system in response to detecting an update to a ledger of a blockchain associated with the second sub-system. The one or more processors of the first sub-system are further configured to distribute the sub-system update for the second sub-system to the second sub-system. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 07, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/435237 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10936302. The primary examiner was Anil Khatri.

VOLVO CAR CORPORATION, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 710 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 1 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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