U.S. Patent 10930377 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on February 23, 2021 and is entitled “Dental health tracking via blockchain.” The first named inventor is Komminist Weldemariam of Nairobi, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method for managing dental records using a blockchain includes receiving, from a dental device, one or more signals associated with a dental activity being performed by the dental device, detecting dental feature indictors with associated confidence levels by analyzing the dental signals, aggregating the dental feature indictors to compute a multi-dimensional feature vector, and determining whether to append the multi-dimensional feature vector to the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 29, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/689536 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10930377. The primary examiner was Robert A Sorey.

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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