U.S. Patent 10504314 was awarded to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED on December 10, 2019 and is entitled “Blockchain-based anonymized cryptologic voting.” The first named inventor is John Velissarios of London, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system may facilitate distributed ledger technology (DLT) record based (for example, blockchain-based) voting. A node configured to support a voter role may access a DLT record to determine answers and/or parameters for a ballot. An organizer of the ballot may provide the voter with a voter token that confers vote-value to the voter. The voter may distribute the vote-value to the answers using committed tokens that bind the voter to a particular vote-value without divulging the particular vote value while in a cryptographic form. The voter may distribute committed tokens to multiple answers. In some cases, the distribution of the committed tokens to multiple answers may frustrate attempts to determine the one or more targets to which the voter delivers a non-null vote-value. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 06, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/212026 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10504314. The primary examiner was Yonas A Bayou.

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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