U.S. Patent 10433115 was awarded to Countia, LLC. on October 01, 2019 and is entitled “Blockchain-based personal location and messenger device and system using decentralized mesh networking.” The first named inventor is Ryan Seay of Cambridge, MA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A personal locational and messenger device and system having a decentralized mesh network, a blockchain, and a device operatively associated with a non-transitory computer readable medium. The blockchain is implemented through application programming interfaces and software development kits. The blockchain is associated with the decentralized mesh network to define a personal location platform and a messenger platform. The decentralized mesh network has a plurality of nodes operatively associated to each other. The decentralized mesh network has a full mesh topology or a partial mesh topology. The device communicates through the decentralized mesh network. The blockchain stores a personal location and messages provided by users. The decentralized mesh network disseminates the personal location and the messages. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 02, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/238065 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10433115. The primary examiner was Khalid W Shaheed.

Countia, LLC., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2 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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