U.S. Patent 10901957 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on January 26, 2021 and is entitled “Checkpointing for increasing efficiency of a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Manish Sethi of Cary, NC. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of retrieving, into a corrupted node in a blockchain network that is at least one corrupted or forked, a state database checkpoint of a state database created at a block number of a blockchain of the blockchain network, wherein the retrieved state database checkpoint comprises a last known non-corrupted or non-forked checkpoint state, retrieving, into the corrupted node, blocks of the blockchain from the checkpoint block number to a current block number, constructing an initial state database from the retrieved state database checkpoint, and executing, at the corrupted node, the transactions of the retrieved blocks on the initial state database to generate a current state database. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 29, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/116191 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10901957. The primary examiner was Phuong Thao Cao.

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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