U.S. Patent 10572684 was awarded to Anonos Inc. on February 25, 2020 and is entitled “Systems and methods for enforcing centralized privacy controls in de-centralized systems.” The first named inventor is Malcolm Gary LaFever of Lyons, CO. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Systems, computer-readable media, and methods for improving both data privacy/anonymity and data value, wherein data related to a data subject can be used and stored, e.g., in a distributed ledger data structure, such as a blockchain, while minimizing re-identification risk by unauthorized parties and enabling data, including quasi-identifiers, related to the data subject to be disclosed to any authorized party by granting access only to the data relevant to that authorized party’s purpose, time period, place and/or other criterion via the obfuscation of specific data values, e.g., pursuant to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or other similar regulatory schemes. The techniques described herein maintain this level of privacy/anonymity while still satisfying the immutability, auditability, and verification mandated by blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) for the decentralized storage of transactional data. Such systems, media, and methods may be implemented on both classical and quantum computing devices. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 26, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/963609 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10572684. The primary examiner was Josnel Jeudy.

Anonos Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 8 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 117 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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