Influential Intel Corporation Blockchain Patent – Apparatuses, methods, and systems for blockchain transaction acceleration – US10761877

U.S. Patent 10761877 was awarded to Intel Corporation on September 01, 2020 and is entitled “Apparatuses, methods, and systems for blockchain transaction acceleration.” The first named inventor is Sean M. Gulley of Sudbury, MA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Methods and apparatuses relating to accelerating blockchain transactions are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a hardware accelerator to execute an operation of a blockchain transaction, and the hardware accelerator includes a dispatcher circuit to route the operation to a transaction processing circuit when the operation is a transaction operation and route the operation to a block processing circuit when the operation is a block operation. In another embodiment, a processor includes a hardware accelerator to execute an operation of a blockchain transaction; and a network interface controller including a dispatcher circuit to route the operation to a transaction processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is a transaction operation and route the operation to a block processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is a block operation. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 30, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/884259 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10761877. The primary examiner was Eric C Wai.

Intel Corporation, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 46429 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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