U.S. Patent 11169976 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on November 09, 2021 and is entitled “Data quality control.” The first named inventor is Pankaj S. Dayama of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a monitoring peer, data collection requirements from a model builder node, querying, by the monitoring peer, a blockchain of a plurality of blockchains for data sets that match the data collection requirements, providing, by the monitoring peer, the data sets to the model builder node to be tested, receiving, by the monitoring peer, a performance feedback on the data sets from the model builder node; and updating, by the monitoring peer, a smart contract associated with the data sets on the blockchain based on the performance feedback. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 11, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/438421 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11169976. The primary examiner was James Trujillo.

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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