U.S. Patent 10121025 was awarded to Capital One Services, LLC on November 06, 2018 and is entitled “Content validation using blockchain.” The first named inventor is Pamela Rice of San Francisco, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A device may receive content data from a content provider, the content data including: data identifying content, and data for verifying that the content has not changed. The device may access a blockchain associated with the content data, the blockchain including validation information specifying instructions for validating the content. In addition, the device may perform, based on the validation information, validation of the content to determine a measure of confidence that the content is accurate and store results of the validation in the blockchain as a transaction. Based on the validation results, the device may perform an action. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 22, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/902368 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10121025. The primary examiner was Longbit Chai.

Capital One Services, LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2278 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 43 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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