U.S. Patent 10839377 was awarded to Coinbase, Inc. on November 17, 2020 and is entitled “Syncing blockchain nodes with snapshots.” The first named inventor is Matthew Werner of San Francisco, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

System and method for synchronizing blockchain nodes by using snapshots. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 27, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/773149 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10839377. The primary examiner was Bruce M Moser.

Coinbase, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 20 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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