U.S. Patent 10817967 was awarded to IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE on October 27, 2020 and is entitled “Method for controlling the identity of a user by means of a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Olivier Clemot of Issy les Moulineaux, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

The present invention relates to a method for controlling the identity of a user (U), comprising the following steps implemented by an identity-controlling device (3): The public database is of blockchain type and the confidentiality-protected data generated by the identity-attesting device (1) are associated in the public database (4) with first transaction data indicating that the identity-attesting device (1) has transferred a predetermined amount of electronic currency to a recipient. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 30, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/798153 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10817967. The assistant examiner was Gregory A Lane.

IDEMIA IDENTITY & SECURITY FRANCE, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 82 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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