U.S. Patent 11003523 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on May 11, 2021 and is entitled “Database optimized disaster recovery testing.” The first named inventor is Soumitra Sarkar of Cary, NC. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a disaster recovery orchestrator, configuration changes independent from a disaster recovery test schedule, from one or more monitoring agents at each of an information technology system, analyzing incremental configuration changes since a previous disaster recovery test for potential to limit a need for unnecessary disaster recovery retest, determining component level changes at each information technology system that impact disaster recovery test readiness, initiating a partial disaster recovery retest without regard to periodic disaster recovery test schedules, in response to incremental configuration changes that are at the information technology system component-level, and invoking a blockchain service to generate blockchain transactions, the blockchain transactions committing configuration changes, disaster recovery testing actions, and disaster recovery testing results to a shared ledger of a blockchain network. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 04, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/431728 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11003523. The primary examiner was Philip Guyton.

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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