U.S. Patent 10693954 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on June 23, 2020 and is entitled “Blockchain-enhanced mobile telecommunication device.” The first named inventor is Clifford A. Pickover of Yorktown Heights, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A computer-implemented method tracks and maintains a record of telecommunication device events using a blockchain that is supported by a peer-to-peer network. One or more processors detect one or more events at a telecommunication device, and then transmit a transaction of the one or more events from the telecommunication device to multiple remote computing devices that are part of a peer-to-peer network, which supports a blockchain that includes a block that includes the transaction of the one or more events. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 03, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/448822 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10693954. The primary examiner was Jeong S Park.

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 1 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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