U.S. Patent 10216948 was awarded to BULL SAS on February 26, 2019 and is entitled “System and method for the creation and management of decentralized authorizations for connected objects.” The first named inventor is David Leporini of Rungis, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Computing systems and methods for the creation and management of authorizations of blockchain objects. Systems and methods managed by a controlled number of governing entities allow the management of access authorizations for an object connected to a varying group of services. Systems and methods therefore have numerous advantages including strong inter-operability, strong resilience, confidentiality, autonomy, ensured data integrity and traceability. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 27, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/855312 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10216948. The primary examiner was Haresh N Patel.

BULL SAS, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 144 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. 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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