U.S. Patent 10423726 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on September 24, 2019 and is entitled “Machine learning to integrate knowledge and natural language processing.” The first named inventor is Sumit Patel of Austin, TX. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system, computer program product, and method are provided to automate a framework for knowledge graph based persistence of data, and to resolve temporal changes and uncertainties in the knowledge graph. Natural language understanding, together with one or more machine learning models (MLMs), is used to extract data from unstructured information, including entities and entity relationships. The extracted data is populated into a knowledge graph. As the KG is subject to change, the KG is used to create new and retrain existing machine learning models (MLMs). Weighting is applied to the populated data in the form of veracity value. Blockchain technology is applied to the populated data to ensure reliability of the data and to provide auditability to assess changes to the data. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 10, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/866698 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10423726. The primary examiner was Nafiz E Hoque.

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 2 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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