U.S. Patent 11035903 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on June 15, 2021 and is entitled “Monitoring of batteries in blockchain networks.” The first named inventor is Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami of Yorktown Heights, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a battery analytics server, to a blockchain network that includes a plurality of charging station nodes, acquiring, by the battery analytics server, a current battery data from a charging station node of the plurality of the charging station nodes, the current battery data includes a battery identification (ID), storing, by the battery analytics server, the current battery data with a timestamp onto a blockchain ledger, comparing, by the battery analytics server, the current battery data against a pre-stored battery data based on the battery ID, and in response to a match, issuing, by the battery analytics server, a certification for a battery to be released from the charging station node of the plurality of the charging station nodes to a user. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 19, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/226271 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11035903. The primary examiner was Ly D Pham.

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 1 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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