U.S. Patent 10936445 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on March 02, 2021 and is entitled “Resource management.” The first named inventor is Nathan J. Rauh of Rochester, MN. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a transaction manager node, to a blockchain configured to store transaction data, receiving, by the transaction manager node, a transaction from a user node, the transaction includes a transactional operation, performing, by the transaction manager node, the transactional operation on an at least one two-phase commit capable resource, writing, by the transaction manager node, the transaction data into a recovery log, committing, by the transaction manager node, the transaction to the blockchain, and in response to an unknown outcome of the commit of the transaction, executing a recovery operation. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 28, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/203475 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10936445. The primary examiner was Joseph D Manoskey.

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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