U.S. Patent 10686611 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on June 16, 2020 and is entitled “Data anonymizing blockchain system.” The first named inventor is Ana C. Biazetti of Cary, NC. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of storing encrypted IoT data as transactions in a blockchain, the IoT data being captured by one or more edge devices of an IoT network, receiving an identification of an event, and in response, retrieving encrypted IoT transaction data stored in the blockchain which is associated with the event, decrypting, via a blockchain node, the retrieved IoT transaction data associated with the event and generating anonymized data of the event from the decrypted IoT transaction data in which personally identifiable information is anonymized, and outputting information concerning the anonymized data of the event to one or more of a user device and a display device. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 24, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/822010 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10686611. The primary examiner was Bryan F Wright.

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 2 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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