U.S. Patent 10110576 was awarded to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED on October 23, 2018 and is entitled “Distributed key secret for rewritable blockchain.” The first named inventor is Giuseppe Ateniese of Hoboken, NJ. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system includes circuitry for rewriting blockchains in a non-tamper-evident or tamper-evident operation using a key secret held in portions by multiple individually untrusted parties. The blockchains may include a series of blocks secured by integrity codes that may prevent non-tamper-evident rewrites by non-trusted parties that are not in possession of the key secret or individually-untrusted parties in possession of only a portion of the key secret. In some cases, multiple individually-untrusted parties may combine their portions into the key secret. As a group, the multiple individually-untrusted parties may perform non-tamper-evident operation with respect to at least one integrity code within the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 23, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/684721 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10110576. The primary examiner was Ali Shayanfar.

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 4 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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