U.S. Patent 10250381 was awarded to Capital One Services, LLC on April 02, 2019 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 first content data from a content provider, the first content data including data identifying content. The device may generate second content data based on the first content data, the second content data including information that causes content validation to be performed on the content. The device may also provide the second content data to a content validation node, the content validation node being included in a content validation network implementing a blockchain network that includes executable instructions for performing content validation. In addition, the device may obtain, from the content validation network, validation results associated with the content, and provide, to a user device, data that causes display of a validation indicator with the content, the validation indicator being based on the validation results. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 22, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/902738 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10250381. 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 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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