U.S. Patent 11088825 was awarded to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. on August 10, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain partial ledgers.” The first named inventor is Mike Alan Holmberg of Boise, ID. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Examples disclosed herein relate to receiving a record of a data transaction between two participants, creating a ledger entry associated with the record of the data transaction, appending the ledger entry to a subset of a plurality of partial ledgers associated with a blockchain, and updating a table of contents associated with each of the plurality of partial ledgers associated with the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 11, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 16/498962 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11088825. The primary examiner was Darren B Schwartz.

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 37773 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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