U.S. Patent 10931437 was awarded to Janssen Pharmaceutica NV on February 23, 2021 and is entitled “System and method for healthcare security and interoperability.” The first named inventor is Jessica Lee of Palo Alto, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Disclosed embodiments facilitate healthcare system security and interoperability. In some embodiments, a first entity may receive, in response to a transaction at a first time, encrypted information blocks pertaining to the transaction from one or more second entities. Each encrypted information block may be received from a distinct second entity and may comprise at least one sub-block decryptable by the first entity. The first entity may decrypt the decryptable sub-blocks and augment a multi-dimensional blockchain. The multi-dimensional blockchain may be augmented with a multi-dimensional block formed by linking at least one of the encrypted information blocks received from the one or more second entities to a current block being added to a blockchain associated with the transaction and maintained by the first entity. The first entity may then enable access to the multi-dimensional blockchain for at least one of the one or more second entities. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 04, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/703848 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10931437. The primary examiner was Huan V Doan.

Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2002 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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