U.S. Patent 10834062 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on November 10, 2020 and is entitled “Unlinking ownership of successive asset transfers on a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Jens Jelitto of Rueschlikon, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving an export identifier to initiate an asset ownership transfer of an asset from a current owner to a new owner, identifying an asset identifier assigned to the asset and a current asset ownership session stored in a blockchain transaction, responsive to identifying the export identifier, assigning a new asset identifier to the asset, assigning a random number to an import identifier used to identify the asset transfer to the new owner, and creating a new blockchain transaction including the new asset identifier, the random number, and a new asset ownership session. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 20, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/013023 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10834062. The primary examiner was Vance M Little.

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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