U.S. Patent 10534913 was awarded to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company on January 14, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain state reliability determination.” The first named inventor is Joshua DANIEL of London, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method for receiving code distributed by a base station at a target device via a network, the distribution being made to one or more destination devices including the target device via one or more distribution servers arranged between the base station and the one or more devices on the network, wherein the base station maintains a first blockchain data structure storing one or more blocks and having a state determined by a most recently committed block in the first blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 03, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 16/086058 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10534913. The primary examiner was Khang Do.

BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1615 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 4 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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