U.S. Patent 10826705 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on November 03, 2020 and is entitled “Compact state database system.” The first named inventor is Chun Hui Suen of Singapore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a full storage peer of a blockchain network, a blockchain transaction, executing chaincode to create a new world state for a blockchain, transferring, in response to the blockchain transaction, partial Merkle tree hashes to one or more partial storage peers, the partial Merkle tree hashes corresponding to the blockchain transaction, verifying a current world state hash with the partial Merkle tree hashes, receiving, by the one or more partial storage peers, chaincode arguments, executing chaincode on the chaincode arguments to generate a new world state, calculating a new world state hash, and performing consensus, by the full storage peer and the one or more partial storage peers, on the new world state hash. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 13, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/218847 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10826705. The primary examiner was Andrew J Steinle.

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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