U.S. Patent 10571444 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on February 25, 2020 and is entitled “Providing data to a distributed blockchain network.” The first named inventor is Risham Y. Chokshi of North Brunswick, NJ. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A computer program product for providing data to a distributed blockchain database includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a computer to cause the computer to receive sensor data from a first sensor unit at a first location, receive additional data corresponding to a first parameter at the first location and forecast data corresponding to the first parameter at the first location, convert the sensor data into a standardized format, generate predicted future sensor data based on a comparison between the additional data, the sensor data, and the forecast data, write the sensor data, the additional data, and predicted future sensor data into a ledger. and submit the ledger to a distributed blockchain database. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 27, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/499432 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10571444. The primary examiner was Paul D Lee.

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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