U.S. Patent 10916253 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on February 09, 2021 and is entitled “Spoken microagreements with blockchain.” The first named inventor is Rasit O. Topaloglu of Poughkeepsie, NY. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Method, system, and apparatus for storing conversation data of a conversation onto a blockchain network, the conversation data comprising terms of an agreement, the method comprising: receiving audio data of a conversation between two or more participants; creating a transcript of at least some of the audio data; accessing a database comprising a plurality of words or phrases. The method, system, and apparatus are also for obtaining, from the database, predefined one or more words associated with a predefined topic; searching the transcript for the predefined one or more words; filtering the transcript based on the predefined one or more words; and storing the conversation data onto a first block of a blockchain stored on the blockchain network, wherein the conversation data comprises the filtered transcript. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 29, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/173939 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10916253. The primary examiner was Sonia L Gay.

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 1 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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