U.S. Patent 10176309 was awarded to Acronis International GmbH on January 08, 2019 and is entitled “Systems and methods for authenticating video using watermarks.” The first named inventor is Serguei M. Beloussov of Costa Del Sol, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed are blockchain-based methods and systems for watermarking digital content. In an exemplary aspect, a method for watermarking digital content is provided, by receiving, by a processor, a data stream comprising audio and/or video content; receiving watermark data, by a processor, from a computing node communicatively linked to a blockchain-based distributed ledger; and applying at least one watermark to the data stream based upon the watermark data, wherein the watermark comprises at least one hash based on one or more data blocks stored in the blockchain-based distributed ledger. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 30, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/797043 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10176309. The primary examiner was Darren B Schwartz.

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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