U.S. Patent 10673775 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on June 02, 2020 and is entitled “Orchestration engine using a blockchain for a cloud resource digital ledger.” The first named inventor is Clifford A. Pickover of Yorktown Heights, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Techniques that facilitate an orchestration engine using a blockchain for a cloud resource digital ledger are provided. In one example, a system includes an orchestration engine component and a blockchain component. The orchestration engine component manages one or more computing resources for a cloud-based computing platform. The blockchain component adds event data indicative of an event associated with the one or more computing resources into a blockchain dataset for the cloud-based computing platform. The blockchain dataset comprises a sequence of data blocks that corresponds to a sequence of events for the cloud-based computing platform. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on February 27, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/906426 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10673775. The primary examiner was Abdullahi E Salad.

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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