U.S. Patent 11188384 was awarded to eBay Inc. on November 30, 2021 and is entitled “Resource trust model for securing component state data for a resource using blockchains.” The first named inventor is Derek CHAMORRO of Austin, TX. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Technologies are shown for storing component state data for a resource on a blockchain involving generating a resource data block that corresponds to a resource that includes links that correspond to components of the resource, generating a first component state data block for a component of the resource on a blockchain that includes first state data for the first component, and setting the link for the component to reference the first component state data block. Subsequently, a second component state data block can be generated for the component with second state data and the second component state data block linked to the first component state data block. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 15, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/384362 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11188384. The primary examiner was Tuan C Dao.

eBay Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2421 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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