U.S. Patent 10937253 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on March 02, 2021 and is entitled “Validation of vehicle data via blockchain.” The first named inventor is Seema Nagar of Bangalore, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of receiving motor vehicle data related to a motor vehicle from a sensor, retrieving a smart contract, related to the motor vehicle data, stored in a blockchain, performing a validation of the motor vehicle data based on validation standards stored in the smart contract, in response to the validation standards not being satisfied, identifying a required corrective action to the motor vehicle, transmitting a request for the corrective action to be performed to one or more registered entities, receiving a confirmation that the corrective action is complete, creating a blockchain transaction including the confirmation, and storing the blockchain transaction in the blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 11, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/004669 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10937253. The primary examiner was Richard A Goldman.

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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