U.S. Patent 10388097 was awarded to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED on August 20, 2019 and is entitled “Blockchain-based cryptologic ballot verification.” The first named inventor is Peter de Rooij of London, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system may facilitate a distributed ledger technology (DLT) record based (for example, blockchain-based) auditing. A node configured to support an auditor role may access a ballot to determine answers and one or more voter transactions to determine committed tokens conferred to the answers. The auditor may access summation information for the committed tokens to facilitate comparison to a voter token acting as a source token for the committed tokens. Without necessarily gaining knowledge of the vote-value conferred by the individual committed tokens, the auditor may compare the committed tokens as a sum to the voter token and confirm that the sum of the committed tokens is consistent with the voter token. The auditor may generate an indication of the result of the comparison. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 06, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/212228 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10388097. The primary examiner was Daniel A Hess.

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 2 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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