U.S. Patent 11170386 was awarded to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED on November 09, 2021 and is entitled “Environmental telemetry supply chain system.” The first named inventor is Richard T. Meszaros of Westworth Village, TX. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system may receive an item identifier and a container identifier, the item identifier being, for example, encoded in a RFID tag affixed to a physical item and the container identifier being, for example, encoded in an RFID tag affixed to a container. The system may identify, on a blockchain, an item smart contract based on the item identifier and a container smart contract based on the container identifier. The item smart contract may include environmental compliance criteria for the physical item. The system may store, on the blockchain, a mapping between an item smart contract and the container smart contract. The system may receive environmental status information derived from sensor data generated by a sensor affixed to or in the container. The system may determine the environmental status information of the container does not satisfy the environmental compliance criteria included in the item smart contract. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 13, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/713915 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11170386. The primary examiner was Jan P Mincarelli.

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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