U.S. Patent 10572688 was awarded to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. on February 25, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain based software licensing enforcement.” The first named inventor is Carlos M. Pignataro of Cary, NC. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A server compiles a software program with a randomly generated string to produce compiled code. The server also computes a hash of the compiled code to produce a unique identifier for the software program. Upon receiving a request from a user to download the software program, the server generates a transaction for a blockchain that has a transaction identifier and the transaction including a user identifier for the user and the unique identifier. The server embeds the transaction identifier and the unique identifier with the software program, and downloads the software program to a computing device associated with the user. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 07, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/482036 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10572688. The primary examiner was Sharif E Ullah.

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 16856 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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