U.S. Patent 11042400 was awarded to block.one on June 22, 2021 and is entitled “Language agnostic smart contract execution on a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Ian Holsman of Minneapolis, MN. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method for providing a language agnostic contract execution on a blockchain is provided. The method includes providing a menu comprising multiple execution environments, and selecting, from a suite of virtual machine containers, a virtual machine container that runs an execution environment selected by the developer of the blockchain application. The method also includes enabling one or more functions in the virtual machine container to access a dedicated memory or a state variable in the block producer to run an action in the virtual machine container, the action provided by a server running the blockchain application, providing the action to the blockchain application in the virtual machine container, and writing an output from the action of the blockchain application to a secure ledger in a blockchain. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 16, 2021  as U.S. Patent Application 17/177110 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11042400. The primary examiner was Longbit Chai.

block.one, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 11 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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