U.S. Patent 10986079 was awarded to AS America, Inc. on April 20, 2021 and is entitled “System and method for hierarchical decisioning within a hybrid blockchain.” The first named inventor is Eren Kursun of New York, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The present disclosure is directed to a novel system for using unique device and user identifiers to perform authentication of a user, device, and/or transaction. In particular, the system may use a heterogeneous blockchain system comprising a series of non-uniform blockchain nodes that may differ in functionality and/or positions of hierarchy. Said non-uniform nodes may further be organized into groups and/or subgroups with custom weight inputs/outputs which alter the degree to which the nodes, groups, and/or subgroups influence the blockchain consensus. In this way, the system increases the security of device authentication by helping to prevent the use of device hijacking methods that circumvent conventional authentication practices. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 06, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/211412 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10986079. The primary examiner was Catherine Thiaw.

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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