U.S. Patent 10699574 was awarded to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC on June 30, 2020 and is entitled “Parking information sharing system using blockchain.” The first named inventor is David Melcher of Ypsilanti, MI. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A vehicle includes a controller, programmed to responsive to detecting a parking space via a camera, generate a parking message including location information about the parking space; broadcast the parking message to fleet vehicles within a predefined geo-fence, each of the fleet vehicles serving as a node of a blockchain network; and receive a predefined reward, via the blockchain network, from one of the fleet vehicles having successfully occupied the parking space. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 29, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/260788 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10699574. The primary examiner was Adolf Dsouza.

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 20806 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 1 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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