U.S. Patent 11177964 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on November 16, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain based authentication.” The first named inventor is Narayana Aditya Madineni of Southport, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for blockchain based authentication is provided. The present invention may include receiving a request packet. The present invention may also include adding the request packet to a blockchain. The present invention may then include creating a hash based on the added request packet and the blockchain. The present invention may further include transmitting the hash to a user. The present invention may also include receiving a verifier packet, wherein the verifier packet includes an authentication token generated by the user that incorporates the transmitted hash. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 25, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/257126 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11177964. The primary examiner was Vu V Tran.

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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