U.S. Patent 10771459 was awarded to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on September 08, 2020 and is entitled “Terminal apparatus, server apparatus, blockchain and method for FIDO universal authentication using the same.” The first named inventor is Seung Hyun Kim of Seoul, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed herein are a terminal apparatus, a server apparatus, and a method for FIDO universal authentication using a blockchain. The method includes sending, by the terminal apparatus, a FIDO service request for any one of FIDO registration, FIDO authentication, and FIDO deregistration for an application service provided by the server apparatus to the server apparatus; verifying, by the blockchain, a FIDO service response message, which is created as a result of local authentication of a user in the terminal apparatus in response to the FIDO service request; and processing, by the server apparatus, the FIDO service request based on whether the FIDO service response message is successfully verified by the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 30, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/117795 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10771459. The primary examiner was Izunna Okeke.

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 9453 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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