U.S. Patent 10911240 was awarded to Hitachi, Ltd. on February 02, 2021 and is entitled “Off-chain blockchain storage with validation.” The first named inventor is Aritoki Takada of Santa Clara, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:
In some examples, a first computing device associated with a first blockchain node receives a transaction request along with related data for storage in an off-chain storage. The first blockchain node may send a communication to a second blockchain node to propose recording the transaction on the blockchain, which may result in the transaction being recorded in a new block on the blockchain as conditionally accepted pending validation of the related data. The first computing device may send the related data to a second computing device associated with the second blockchain node that performs validation. The first blockchain node receives, from the second blockchain node, a communication that proposes recording of the transaction on the blockchain as being validated. The first and second blockchain nodes may send one or more communications to cause addition of another new block to the blockchain indicating validity of the transaction. Link to Full Patent
This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 23, 2018 as U.S. Patent Application 16/041877 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10911240. The assistant examiner was Stephen T Gundry.
Hitachi, Ltd., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 43825 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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