U.S. Patent 11048690 was awarded to Adobe Inc. on June 29, 2021 and is entitled “Contribution of multiparty data aggregation using distributed ledger technology.” The first named inventor is Kevin Gary Smith of Lehi, UT. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

In various embodiments, a request may be received identifying items of information and an entity requesting the items. A set of entities may be determined It may be determined, for a response to the request, that collectively has access to a set of values that captures each of the items requested by the entity. A transaction of a transaction block may be created on a blockchain maintained at least in part by one or more nodes of a distributed ledger system. The transaction may be digitally signed and identify the set of entities, and contribution scores of the values to the set of values. Each contribution score for a given value of an item being based on a level of scarcity of the item and a level of usage of the item. The blockchain may identify a scoring algorithm used to determine the contribution scores. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 21, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/198541 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11048690. The primary examiner was Mohammed R Uddin.

Adobe Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 5213 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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