U.S. Patent 11146535 was awarded to AS America, Inc. on October 12, 2021 and is entitled “System for managing a virtual private ledger and distributing workflow of authenticated transactions within a blockchain distributed network.” The first named inventor is Brandon Matthew Castagna of Mount Holly, NC. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for expediting validation and authorization of transactions between end points. Embodiments of the invention utilize a private blockchain to control transaction workflow amongst compute nodes, provide automatic authorization of transactions in the workflow, and provide efficient record-keeping functions within the virtual ledgers in an upstream and a downstream application. By using a private distributed ledger in this manner, the system addresses the computer networking-centric challenge of processing transactions in a secure and efficient manner; avoiding desynchronization of data as well as preventing the need for authorization and confirmation requests amongst the nodes greatly reduces the amount of computing resources required to process transactions, including, but not limited to, processing power, memory space, storage space, cache space, electric power, networking bandwidth, and I/O calls. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 12, 2016  as U.S. Patent Application 15/291799 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11146535. The primary examiner was Lalita M Hamilton.

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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