U.S. Patent 10645235 was awarded to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba on May 05, 2020 and is entitled “System and method for blockchain ledger over multifunction peripheral network.” The first named inventor is Milong SABANDITH of Irvine, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A system and method for distributed multifunction peripheral blockchain ledgering includes a group of networked MFPs, each having a document processing engine, a network interface and an intelligent controller with a processor and memory. An electronic blockchain ledger is stored in memory, along with licensing data designating the multifunction peripheral as trusted. Transaction data is received via the network interface and validated. MFPs poll other trusted, networked multifunction peripherals to validate received transaction data, and update the blockchain ledger in accordance with validated transactions. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on October 25, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/170805 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10645235. The primary examiner was Thomas D Lee.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 53683 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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