U.S. Patent 11196568 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on December 07, 2021 and is entitled “Identity protection.” The first named inventor is Nitin Gaur of Round Rock, TX. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by an identity protection node, to a blockchain network comprised of a plurality of user nodes, assigning, by the identity protection node, two sets of credentials to users of the plurality of the user nodes, monitoring, by the identity protection node, transactions initiated by the plurality of the user nodes, in response to a detection of an unauthorized transaction initiated by a user node of the plurality of the user nodes, invoking, by the identity protection node, the second set of the credentials of a user associated with the unauthorized transaction, and executing, by the identity protection node, a smart contract to apply the second set of the credentials against the first set of the credentials. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 07, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/241133 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11196568. The primary examiner was David J Pearson.

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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