U.S. Patent 11049601 was awarded to Bigfoot Biomedical, Inc. on June 29, 2021 and is entitled “Therapy data management system.” The first named inventor is Kevin S. Lee of Milpitas, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method for managing therapy data using computing nodes is disclosed. A computing node is associated with a blockchain identifying therapy data and features. The method includes: obtaining, by a first computing node from a first medical device, first therapy data, the first computing node being associated with a first blockchain; validating the first therapy data using features associated with the first blockchain; and in response to validating the first therapy data, adding the first therapy data to the first blockchain; receiving a request from a second medical device to obtain the first therapy data from the first block chain; providing, from the first computing node to the second medical device, and in response to receiving the request, the first therapy data to the second medical device, wherein the therapy data is used by the second medical device to provide a patient therapy recommendation. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 31, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/528149 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11049601. The primary examiner was Rachelle L Reichert.

Bigfoot Biomedical, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 117 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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