U.S. Patent 10884810 was awarded to Amazon Technologies, Inc. on January 05, 2021 and is entitled “Workload management using blockchain-based transaction deferrals.” The first named inventor is Prashant Verma of Seattle, WA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A determination is made that a request associated with an application is a candidate for blockchain-based deferral. An insertion of a record representing at least the request at a blockchain is initiated. One or more records representing the request are accessed to perform an operation indicated in the request. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 16, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/815661 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10884810. The primary examiner was Cam Linh T Nguyen.

Amazon Technologies, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 15802 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 4 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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