U.S. Patent 10904009 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on January 26, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain implementing delta storage.” The first named inventor is Nitin Gaur of Round Rock, TX. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of executing a blockchain transaction which generates modifications to an asset, identifying a most recent version of the asset comprising most recent values of the asset before the blockchain transaction, generating a delta block for the executed blockchain transaction identifying differences between the modifications to the asset and the most recent version of the asset introduced by the blockchain transaction being executed while excluding unmodified values of the most recent version of the asset which are not modified by the executed blockchain transaction, and hashing the delta block to generate a hashed delta block and storing the hashed delta block on a distributed ledger. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 30, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/992268 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10904009. The assistant examiner was Chi D Nguy.

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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