U.S. Patent 10755226 was awarded to EMC IP Holding Company LLC on August 25, 2020 and is entitled “Information management system using blockchain functionalities.” The first named inventor is Brandon Kaier of Centennial, CO. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An information management system includes a blockchain infrastructure configured to maintain a blockchain for one or more smart contracts generated for one or more assets managed by the information management system, and one or more application programming interfaces configured to provide access to the one or more smart contracts of the blockchain enabling input of data to a given smart contract for a given asset and retrieval of data from the given smart contract of the given asset. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 24, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/441588 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10755226. The primary examiner was Nathan A Mitchell.

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 4 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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