U.S. Patent 10176308 was awarded to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED on January 08, 2019 and is entitled “Entitlement management system.” The first named inventor is Arthur R. Leinen, III of South Bend, IN. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A server node may receive a token creation message including an authorization parameter. The server node may acquire, from a blockchain synchronized across a plurality of network nodes, a token factory in response to receipt of the token creation message. The token factory may include token factory logic configured to generate an authorization token based on the authorization parameter. The server node may generate, based on execution of the token factory logic with the token creation parameter, the authorization token. The authorization token may include authorization logic configured to validate an access event corresponding to an executable component configured on a remote device. The server node may append a datablock to the blockchain. The datablock may include the authorization token. The server node may control access to the executable component configured on the remote device by execution of the authorization token included in the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 19, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/899169 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10176308. The primary examiner was Samson B Lemma.

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 6 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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