U.S. Patent 10261846 was awarded to Banjo, Inc. on April 16, 2019 and is entitled “Storing and verifying the integrity of event related data.” The first named inventor is Rish Mehta of Redwood City, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for storing and validating the integrity of event related information. To facilitate auditing and traceability, raw signals, normalized signals, detected events, event expirations, and event notifications can be stored in a queryable distributed ledger (e.g., a blockchain). Personal information can be stripped (or otherwise rendered inert, for example, unrecognizable, unreproducible, etc.) prior to storage into the distributed ledger minimizing the possibility of a person being identified. Ledger data can be used to verify actual data as well as for forensics purposes, such as, to audit data, recreate events, etc., in view of an error or inconsistency to investigate, diagnose, remediate, etc. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 05, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/121847 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10261846. The primary examiner was Charles E Anya.

Banjo, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 66 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 9 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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