U.S. Patent 10691674 was awarded to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED on June 23, 2020 and is entitled “Distributed system for animal identification and management.” The first named inventor is Alexandra Theresa Ashpole of Sunnyvale, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A platform may receive, from a user device, a request for a status of an animal, wherein the request includes animal identification information associated with the animal. The platform may identify, based on receiving the request, an animal record identifier associated with the animal. The platform may verify that an entity associated with the user device is authorized to obtain the status of the animal, wherein the entity is one of a plurality of entities that are authorized to obtain the status of the animal. The platform may identify, based on verifying that the entity is associated with the user device, blocks of a blockchain that include the animal record identifier. The platform may determine the status of the animal from animal records associated with the animal, wherein the animal records are included within the blocks. The platform may provide, to the user device, the status of the animal. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 03, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/559285 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10691674. The primary examiner was Robert B Leung.

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 5 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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