U.S. Patent 10440028 was awarded to CyberArk Software Ltd. on October 08, 2019 and is entitled “Distributed authorization of identities in a dynamic connected environment.” The first named inventor is Gil Makmel of Rishon Lezion, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Techniques include receiving, at a sensor, a request for authentication of an identity; determining, based on a distributed ledger, a dynamic credibility score for the identity; determining whether the dynamic credibility score for the identity can be validated by consensus by at least a subset of distributed verification services, based on whether the dynamic credibility score for the identity is within a range of variance from one or more credibility scores for the identity determined by the subset of the plurality of distributed verification services; and determining, based on whether the dynamic credibility score for the identity can be validated by consensus, whether to authorize the identity to perform the action in the blockchain network. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 16, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/249647 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10440028. The primary examiner was Shin-Hon (Eric) Chen.

CyberArk Software Ltd., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 101 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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