U.S. Patent 11088844 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on August 10, 2021 and is entitled “Preservation of privacy of inputs.” The first named inventor is Pralhad Dinesh Deshpande of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:
An example system may include a processor and memory, wherein the processor is configured to perform one or more of gather hashed commitments inputs from a plurality of user peers until a current time of a blockchain network equals to a hashed commitments inputs end time (t1), collect plain text inputs until the current time of the blockchain network equals to a plain text inputs collection end time (t2), wherein the t2 is greater than the t1, and execute a chaincode of the smart contract to: compare generated hashes of the plain text inputs against previously stored hashes, in response to a match, store the plain text inputs into an input array, and perform a compute function on the input array. Link to Full Patent
This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 26, 2019 as U.S. Patent Application 16/364971 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11088844. The primary examiner was Simon P Kanaan.
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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