U.S. Patent 10922654 was awarded to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED on February 16, 2021 and is entitled “Software assurance and trust in a distributed delivery environment.” The first named inventor is Kapil Singi of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A device may receive information regarding a software environment and/or one or more modules associated with the software environment; receive information regarding one or more compliance requirements; determine one or more smart contracts based on the information regarding the one or more compliance requirements and the information regarding the software environment and/or the one or more modules associated with the software environment; obtain data regarding the software environment and/or the one or more modules; determine, using the one or more smart contracts, whether the data satisfies the one or more compliance requirements; and add at least part of a block, to a blockchain, to indicate whether the data satisfies the one or more compliance requirements, for realization of a reward or penalty associated with the one or more compliance requirements. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 31, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/885636 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10922654. The assistant examiner was Cuong V Luu.

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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