U.S. Patent 11164671 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on November 02, 2021 and is entitled “Continuous compliance auditing readiness and attestation in healthcare cloud solutions.” The first named inventor is Mario E. De Armas of Wellington, FL. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A mechanism is provided in a data processing system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory comprising instructions which are executed by the at least one processor and configure the processor to implement a healthcare blockchain framework for continuous compliance auditing readiness and attestation in healthcare cloud solutions. The mechanisms provides a healthcare blockchain framework to create, read, update, and delete elements of a healthcare compliance model supporting a dynamic allocation of cloud resources to a healthcare business network. Compliance with one or more healthcare regulations is built into the blockchain framework. Responsive to an attestation event, a compliance attestation component within the healthcare blockchain framework reviews asset contents, state, and properties of an asset in a compliance repository. The compliance attestation component creates a bottom-up asset manifest for the asset and compares the asset manifest to a test case corresponding to an asset class of the asset. The compliance attestation component validates the asset against evidence rules corresponding to the asset class of the asset based on the comparison. Responsive to the compliance attestation component validating the asset, the mechanism generates a proof-of-validation certification. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 22, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/253582 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11164671. The primary examiner was Reza Nabi.

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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