U.S. Patent 11184395 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on November 23, 2021 and is entitled “Cross-network identity provisioning.” The first named inventor is Nitin Gaur of Round Rock, TX. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation includes one or more of connecting, by an identity provisioning node, a blockchain one to a blockchain two, creating, by an identity provisioning node, an interoperation identity network (IIN) for the blockchain one and for the blockchain two as an instance of a self-sovereign identity (SSI) network, executing a smart contract to: invoke an IIN access control policy, map attributes and permissions of the blockchain one to attributes and permissions of the blockchain two based on the IIN access control policy, and generate a valid verifiable credential (VC) of the IIN in the blockchain one and in the blockchain two based on the mapped attributes and the permissions. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 13, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 15/930515 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11184395. The assistant examiner was Nega Woldemariam.

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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