U.S. Patent 10476879 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on November 12, 2019 and is entitled “Blockchain authentication via hard/soft token verification.” The first named inventor is Luis Angel D. Bathen of Placentia, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of storing a public key and one or more corresponding addresses associated with a user profile in a blockchain, creating a credential for the user profile based on the public key, forwarding the credential to the one or more addresses, receiving a request for access to a site from a user device associated with the user profile, and retrieving the credential based on the one or more addresses from the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 26, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/660756 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10476879. The primary examiner was Morshed Mehedi.

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 2 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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