U.S. Patent 10243731 was awarded to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED on March 26, 2019 and is entitled “Hardware blockchain acceleration.” The first named inventor is John Velissarios of London, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Hardware acceleration supports complex software processes. In particular, a hardware security module provides encryption support for transaction chains. In one implementation, the security module circuitry provides high-speed security features and acceleration of the security features for blockchain processing. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 05, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/832729 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10243731. The primary examiner was Saleh Najjar.

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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