U.S. Patent 10930144 was awarded to LABYRINTH TECHNOLOGIES, LLC on February 23, 2021 and is entitled “Systems and methods for collaborative road user safety.” The first named inventor is Kevin L Miller of Gainesville, FL. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Systems and techniques describe a collaborative road user safety service that interacts with a coordinating set of collaborative safety devices belonging to road users in order to interchange reliable information about road safety. A distributed ledger/blockchain is utilized in connection with the service to coordinate data exchange between collaborative safety device users and provide data subscribers with reliable safety data that can be used to automate ancillary technical processes. Collaborative safety devices can alert members to road safety issues and be used to confirm information about road safety by collecting sensor and telemetry data. Data subscribers can receive aggregated, anonymized, de-anonymized, or specific road user data pertaining to road users and define the terms of incentives to road users that “self-revise” if a road user’s vehicle is a target vehicle via smart contract interfaces. Cryptographic token can be transferred to incentivize data sharing, accuracy, and safe road behaviors. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 10, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/679222 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10930144. The primary examiner was Kira Nguyen.

LABYRINTH TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 16 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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