U.S. Patent 10873625 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORA ! ION on December 22, 2020 and is entitled “Service management for the infrastructure of blockchain networks.” The first named inventor is Neeraj Asthana of Acton, MA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Techniques facilitating service management for the infrastructure of blockchain networks are provided. A system comprises a memory and a processor that executes computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise an allocation component, a grouping component, and an implementation component. The allocation component can assign, within a blockchain network, a first group of nodes of a first node type to a first set of operation slots and a second group of nodes of a second node type, different than the first node type, to a second set of operation slots. The grouping component can aggregate the second group of nodes assigned to the second set of operation slots with the first group of nodes within the first set of operation slots. The implementation component can execute a service management operation. A consensus algorithm can be satisfied during an execution of the service management operation. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 26, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/905015 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10873625. The primary examiner was Tonia L Dollinger.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORA ! ION, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1 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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