U.S. Patent 10771449 was awarded to MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED on September 08, 2020 and is entitled “Method and system for trustworthiness using digital certificates.” The first named inventor is Manish Kumar of State College, PA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method for generating digital certificates for anonymous users in blockchain transactions includes: storing a blockchain comprised of a plurality of blocks, each block including a block header and transaction values, where each transaction value includes data related to a blockchain transaction including a sending address, recipient address, and transaction amount; receiving a certificate request from a computing device, the request including a user public key of a cryptographic key pair; identifying a subset of transaction values in the blockchain where the sending address or recipient address was generated using the user public key; determining a confidence level based on the data included in each transaction value included in the subset; generating a digital certificate based on the determined confidence level; and transmitting the generated digital certificate to the computing device. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 04, 2017  as U.S. Patent Application 15/830085 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10771449. The primary examiner was Shin-Hon (Eric) Chen.

MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1445 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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