U.S. Patent 10362278 was awarded on July 23, 2019 and is entitled “Firearm environmental recording apparatus and system.” The first named inventor is Kevin Barnes of Baltimore, MD. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A firearm environmental recording apparatus, which may be used with a firearm environmental recording system, may include: a firearm attachment structure configured to attach to portions of a firearm; a processing unit; a camera configured to record image data; a microphone configured to record audio data; and an inertial sensor module configured to provide to orientation data. The image data, audio data, and orientation data may be associated with and/or stored in a database, such as a blockchain database of a blockchain network, so that a chain of trust and the integrity of data recorded by the one or more firearm environmental recording apparatuses is maintained and accessible in a secure unalterable state. Nodes of the blockchain network may include client devices, servers, and firearm environmental recording apparatuses, and tokens of a cryptocurrency may be provided to nodes for performing data transactions in the blockchain database. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 03, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/887999 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10362278. The primary examiner was Tracy Y. Li.

This blockchain patent has been cited 1 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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