U.S. Patent 10484341 was awarded to EMC IP Holding Company LLC on November 19, 2019 and is entitled “Distributed ledger for multi-cloud operational state.” The first named inventor is Stephen J. Todd of Center Conway, NH. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An apparatus comprises at least one processing device having a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to implement a first ledger node of a first cloud. The first ledger node of the first cloud is configured to communicate over one or more networks with a plurality of additional ledger nodes associated with respective additional clouds. The first ledger node is further configured to obtain a transaction associated with a cloud-related operational state. The first ledger node is further configured to broadcast the transaction to the additional ledger nodes. A cryptographic block characterizing at least the transaction is generated and entered into a blockchain distributed ledger collectively maintained by the first and additional ledger nodes. The first and additional ledger nodes collectively maintain the blockchain distributed ledger on a peer-to-peer basis without utilizing a centralized transaction authority. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 27, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/499224 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10484341. The primary examiner was Techane Gergiso.

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 9796 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 3 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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