U.S. Patent 10764070 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on September 01, 2020 and is entitled “High precision timestamps in blockchain.” The first named inventor is Eric Kass of Mannheim, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a document server, a hash of data generated by an author registered with a blockchain, sending, by the document server, the hash of the data to a timestamp authority (TSA) to be time stamped, receiving, by the document server, a timestamp reflecting when the hash of the data was received by the TSA and forwarding the timestamp to the author, receiving a combination of the hash of the data and the timestamp (time/hash) signed by the author and forwarding the time/hash to the blockchain, receiving, by the document server, the time/hash signed by the TSA, and forwarding the time/hash signed by the TSA to the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 30, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/116979 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10764070. The primary examiner was Hosuk Song.

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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