U.S. Patent 10521505 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on December 31, 2019 and is entitled “Cognitive mediator for generating blockchain smart contracts.” The first named inventor is Joseph N. Kozhaya of Morrisville, NC. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

In an approach to generating blockchain smart contracts, one or more computer processors receive a request for a service from a user. The one or more computer processors extract one or more features from the request. The one or more computer processors determine one or more smart contract templates associated with the request based, at least in part, on the extracted one or more features. The one or more computer processors receive one or more responses to the request from one or more service providers. The one or more computer processors generate a draft smart contract based, at least in part on the determined one or more smart contract templates and the one or more received responses. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 17, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/844577 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10521505. The primary examiner was Qi Han.

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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