U.S. Patent 10796000 was awarded to Intel Corporation on October 06, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain system with nucleobase sequencing as proof of work.” The first named inventor is Rajesh Poornachandran of Portland, OR. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A sequence mining platform (SMP) comprises a processor, at least one machine-accessible storage medium responsive to the processor, and a sequence manager in the machine-accessible storage medium. The sequence manager is configured to use processing resources to determine a sequence of nucleobases in a nucleic acid. The storage medium also comprises a blockchain manager to (a) collect transaction data for one or more transactions for a blockchain which requires a proof of work (POW) for each new block; and (b) include at least some of the transaction data in a new block for the blockchain. The storage medium also comprises a sequence mining module (SMM) to use the determined sequence of nucleobases from the sequence manager to create a POW for the new block. In one embodiment, the SMM enables an entity which controls the SMP to receive transaction rewards and sequencing rewards. Other embodiments are described and claimed. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 11, 2016  as U.S. Patent Application 15/179986 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10796000. The assistant examiner was Michael M Lee.

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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