U.S. Patent 11201746 was awarded to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED on December 14, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain access control system.” The first named inventor is Sridhar Ranganathan of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system may receive a credential token and an access command. The access command may identify access logic to modify a datablock stored in a blockchain. The credential token may be mapped to a role token included in a role-based access control model. The system may determine a role-based access control framework authorizes the access command by identifying an authorization token in the role-based access control model, and the system may determine the role token is mapped to the identified authorization token in the role-based access control model. The system may determine the datablock includes the identified authorization token. The system may validate the identified authorization token. The system may authorize execution of the access logic to modify the datablock in response to the access command being authorized by the role-based access control framework, and validation of the identified authorization token included in the datablock. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 01, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/529343 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11201746. The primary examiner was Christopher A Revak.

ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2272 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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