U.S. Patent 10878518 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on December 29, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain enabled quality control in construction projects.” The first named inventor is Sarbajit K. Rakshit of Kolkata, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A data item block is linked to a construction item block in a blockchain representing a construction project. A multi-dimensional tensor is constructed from a set of blocks in the blockchain, the set of blocks including the data item block, the construction item block, a block describing an operation relative to the construction item of the construction item block. An event is forecasted along a dimension of the tensor. The event is of the dimension, and is likely to occur relative to the construction item at a future time. A determination is made whether the event complies with a specification included in a spec block of the blockchain. When the event is non-compliant, an exception block corresponding to the event is linked with the construction item block in the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 30, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/967580 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10878518. The primary examiner was Alan S Miller.

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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