U.S. Patent 11165590 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on November 02, 2021 and is entitled “Decentralized biometric signing of digital contracts.” The first named inventor is Anthony M. Butler of Dubai, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method and system for decentralized biometric signing of a digital contract. A private key is encrypted using biometric data captured, from a user, on a mobile device. The encrypted private key, a public key associated with the private key, and a digital identity pertaining to the user and the captured biometric data are stored on the mobile device. A digital hash of the digital contract is generated. Using the captured biometric data, the user is authenticated and the encrypted private key is decrypted. The digital hash is signed with the decrypted private key. The signed digital hash of the digital contract, the digital contract prior to being hashed, the identifier, the certifier of the identifier, the public key, a certification of the public key by a third party, and a record of a successful authentication of the user using the biometric data are stored in a blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 18, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/686428 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11165590. The primary examiner was Jahangir Kabir.

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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