U.S. Patent 11050822 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on June 29, 2021 and is entitled “Secure data dissemination.” The first named inventor is Qi Zhang of Elmsford, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a lead peer, a new block from an orderer node over a blockchain network that includes a plurality of peers, acquiring, by the lead peer, a shared memory handler for a channel of the blockchain network from an anchor peer, appending, by the lead peer, the new block to a shared memory buffer based on the handler, and notifying the plurality of the peers that the new block is available on the shared memory buffer. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 05, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/432754 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11050822. The primary examiner was Jungwon Chang.

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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