U.S. Patent 10157295 was awarded to Acronis International GmbH on December 18, 2018 and is entitled “System and method for file authenticity certification using blockchain network.” The first named inventor is Serguei M. Beloussov of Costa Del Sol, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system and method for authenticating data files using a block chain network. An exemplary method includes identifying data files in electronic data storage, computing hash values for files, adding pairs of the hash values and computing hash values for each resulting pair, continuing this process to a root level of a hash tree, and sending the root hash to a blockchain network in which one or more nodes in the blockchain network adds the hash value as one or more blocks in a blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 06, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/726605 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10157295. The primary examiner was Yogesh Paliwal.

Acronis International GmbH, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 119 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 3 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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