U.S. Patent 10877962 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on December 29, 2020 and is entitled “Deferred update of database hashcode in blockchain.” The first named inventor is Hiroshi Horii of Tokyo, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A computer-implemented method for updating a database in a blockchain system to add a block to a blockchain may include: adding an update query to the database as a data item upon receiving the update query to update the database; calculating a hash value based on data items stored in the database, the stored data items including the added data item of the update query; and adding a new block to the blockchain using the hash value. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 11, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/674629 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10877962. The primary examiner was Mark D Featherstone.

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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