U.S. Patent 10860259 was awarded on December 08, 2020 and is entitled “Multi-tiered storage system for blockchain.” The first named inventor is Tyson York Winarski of Mountain View, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An archival blockchain system is disclosed that includes a cache-tier storage level where blockchain blocks for a contiguous blockchain are generated and stored before they have met a first aging criteria, a disk-tier storage level where the blockchain blocks are stored after they have met the first aging criteria, but before they have met a second aging criteria, and a tape-tier storage level where the blockchain blocks are stored after they have met the second aging criteria. This archival blockchain system also includes a blockchain appliance in digital data communication with the cache-tier, disk-tier, and tape-tier storage levels that maintains a blockchain ledger that stores data pointers to the blockchain blocks stored on the cache-tier, disk-tier, and tape-tier storage levels to logically link them into the contiguous blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 18, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/543598 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10860259. The assistant examiner was Edmund H Kwong.

This blockchain patent has been cited 2 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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