U.S. Patent 10915552 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on February 09, 2021 and is entitled “Delegating credentials with a blockchain member service.” The first named inventor is Maria Dubovitskaya of Zurich, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving a signed transaction from a blockchain member device, responsive to receiving the signed transaction, identifying a credential assigned to the blockchain member device, and the credential certifies a public key is assigned to the blockchain member device and was used to sign the signed transaction, determining whether to commit the signed transaction to a blockchain based on the credential, and responsive to determining to commit the signed transaction based on the credential, storing the signed transaction anonymously in the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 28, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/021333 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10915552. The primary examiner was Shawnchoy Rahman.

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 1 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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