U.S. Patent 10664451 was awarded to Blockstack PBC on May 26, 2020 and is entitled “Systems and methods for encrypting data in backend storage caches shared by multiple decentralized applications.” The first named inventor is Matthew Little of New York, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

In a decentralized system based on a blockchain, a storage server directs the off-chain storage of shared data for multiple decentralized applications in data caches on a backend storage provider, such that a user’s client and any authorized decentralized applications can access encrypted data in the data caches, but the storage server performs no encryption of that data and is not exposed to encryption keys and unauthorized decentralized applications cannot access the encrypted data. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 29, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/555445 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10664451. The primary examiner was Greta L Robinson.

Blockstack PBC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 6 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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