U.S. Patent 10521604 was awarded to LABYRINTH TECHNOLOGIES, LLC on December 31, 2019 and is entitled “Unified control of privacy-impacting devices.” The first named inventor is Kevin L. Miller of Gainesville, FL. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Systems, techniques, and apparatuses facilitate selecting, defining, controlling, verifying, and auditing privacy-impacting behaviors of devices in alignment with the privacy behavior expectations of individuals and other entities. Techniques and systems, including apparatuses, are presented to facilitate controlling and verifying the privacy behaviors of privacy-impacting devices. Privacy enunciator apparatuses announce the presence of entities in a devices range of action or influence. Techniques and systems for defining and sharing individualized privacy behavior preferences are shown. Techniques and systems are disclosed for privacy preference resolution protocols that allow for the automated or interactive resolution of conflicts that arise between individuals in multi-actor environments or ambiguous contexts. Accountability and audit mechanisms verify the control state of devices with respect to their privacy behavior preference inputs. A trust-enhancing and technically transparent system architecture includes a distributed application network, distributed ledger technology, smart contracts, and/or blockchain technology. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on March 19, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/090918 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10521604. The primary examiner was Jayesh M Jhaveri.

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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