U.S. Patent 11194919 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on December 07, 2021 and is entitled “Cognitive system for managing consent to user data.” The first named inventor is Jitan Chandanani of Mumbai, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request for access to data of a user, the request comprising an identification of a requestor and an identification of the data, determining, via a cognitive engine, whether or not to provide access to the data of the user based on context associated with the user, in response to determining to provide access to the data of the user, invoking chaincode which retrieves access to the data of the user from a blockchain and provides the requestor with access to the data of the user, and storing a result of the determination by the cognitive engine via the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 17, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/415667 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11194919. The primary examiner was Hee K Song.

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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