U.S. Patent 10778426 was awarded to EMC IP Holding Company LLC on September 15, 2020 and is entitled “Validation of sensor data using a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Assaf Natanzon of Tel Aviv, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Techniques are provided for validating sensor data using a blockchain. An exemplary method comprises: obtaining sensor data from a sensor; retrieving a transaction identifier from a blockchain; saving one or more public properties of the sensor and the transaction identifier in an output metadata stream; calculating a signature of the obtained sensor data, the one or more public properties of the sensor and the transaction identifier; saving the signature in the output metadata stream; and storing the signature encrypted with a private key of the sensor as a transaction in the blockchain. An exemplary validation of sensor data comprises decrypting the encrypted signature from the blockchain using a public key of the sensor and comparing the decrypted signature with a signature of the sensor data obtained from the output metadata stream. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 29, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/940238 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10778426. The primary examiner was Jeremiah L Avery.

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 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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