U.S. Patent 10560268 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on February 11, 2020 and is entitled “Node characterization in a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Subramanian Palaniappan of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A blockchain may be used to store transactions in an immutable ledger. The types of transactions may vary and the information from the transactions could be used to identify information about nodes in a particular network. One example operation may include one or more of identifying a number of nodes operating on a blockchain, determining a new blockchain transaction, and determining one or more of the nodes as having one or more characteristics based on the new blockchain transaction. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 13, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/431219 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10560268. The primary examiner was Debbie M Le.

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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