U.S. Patent 10936294 was awarded to Dell Products L.P. on March 02, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain-based software compliance system.” The first named inventor is Ravikanth Chaganti of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A blockchain-based software compliance system includes a computing system with a first computing device associated with first software. A monitoring system detects an update of the first computing device to replace the first software with second software, and generates a blockchain transaction that is directed to a blockchain address and that identifies the replacement of the first software with the second software. The monitoring system broadcasts the blockchain transaction, which is received by a blockchain device that executes a smart contract associated with the blockchain address. The blockchain device then determines that the execution of the smart contract has provided an indication that the updating of the first computing device with the second software does not comply with a computing system software matrix and, in response, causes an update to the first computing device that replaces the second software with third software that complies with the computing system software matrix. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 01, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/178030 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10936294. The primary examiner was S. Sough.

Dell Products L.P., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 6891 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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