U.S. Patent 10713654 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on July 14, 2020 and is entitled “Enterprise blockchains and transactional systems.” The first named inventor is Donna Eng Dillenberger of Yorktown Heights, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system, method, and computer readable storage medium configured for a transactional database management system shared by all computing nodes participating in a system based on a blockchain protocol. The transactional database management system includes transactions and blocks, where the transactions are data to be stored in the blockchain and the blocks are records that confirm when and in what sequence certain transaction became journaled as part of the blockchain. A request is received signed with a signature of a user system to include a new transaction with additional data in the blockchain. In response to the signature being verified and hash of batches of receive transaction into the block being verified. The block are added that records the new transaction with additional data in the blockchain using within the transactional database management system. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 21, 2016  as U.S. Patent Application 15/002824 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10713654. The assistant examiner was Yingying Zhou.

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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