U.S. Patent 11032083 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on June 08, 2021 and is entitled “Atomic transactional processing.” The first named inventor is Ching-Yun Chao of Austin, TX. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a committer node, to a main blockchain comprised of a plurality of initiator nodes, receiving, by the committer node, a transaction from an initiator node of the plurality of the initiator nodes and placing blocks of the transaction on the main blockchain, executing, by the committer node, a request from the initiator node of the plurality of the initiator nodes to branch off a sub-blockchain from the main blockchain, processing, by the committer node, the transaction in the sub-blockchain, detecting, by the committer node, a completion or an ending of the transaction in the sub-blockchain, in response to the detection of the completion of the transaction, committing the transaction to the main blockchain, in response to the detection of the ending of the transaction, terminating the transaction in the sub-blockchain, and discarding, by the committer node, the sub-blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 06, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/181541 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11032083. The primary examiner was Wasika Nipa.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 150818 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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