U.S. Patent 10862859 was awarded to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. on December 08, 2020 and is entitled “Highly available DHCP service by running DHCP servers on a blockchain network.” The first named inventor is Balakumaran Kannan of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Example embodiments in the disclosure relate to providing a highly available DHCP service using a plurality of DHCP servers running on a blockchain network. The highly available DHCP service may be provided by running a blockchain network of DHCP servers that: i) share a common pool of IP addresses that are assigned to client devices; and ii) maintain a copy of a blockchain containing a record of communications between servers and clients relating to allocation of IP addresses to clients from the common IP address pool. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 12, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/217525 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10862859. The primary examiner was Dustin Nguyen.

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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