U.S. Patent 11057462 was awarded to AS America, Inc. on July 06, 2021 and is entitled “Asset management block chain.” The first named inventor is Thomas V. Brock of Carrollton, TX. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Apparatus and methods for establishing a permissioned blockchain on an Internet of Things (“IoT”) system. The method may be performed by a central IoT hub. The method may include identifying a IoT nodes associated with the IoT system. The method may also include running an authentication routine on the identified IoT nodes. The method may further include identifying a subset of the IoT nodes that have been authenticated by the authentication routine. The method may further include grouping the subset of IoT nodes into a first group of IoT nodes and a second group of IoT nodes, the grouping being based at least in part on available storage space and processing speed of each of the subset of IoT nodes. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 27, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/936607 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11057462. The primary examiner was Gregory G Todd.

AS America, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 4320 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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