U.S. Patent 11121858 was awarded to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC on September 14, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain analytics.” The first named inventor is Marc Mercuri of Bothell, WA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A blockchain analytics system facilitates determination of parameters of blockchain objects for analytics. Examples of parameters of the blockchain object may include an identity of a participant, a role of a participant, a type of the blockchain object and the like. The system may store parameters of blockchain objects in the data repository. The system may use the determined parameters to generate a machine learning blockchain analytics model. The system may generate visualizations, detect patterns and/or for detecting anomalies based on the machine learning blockchain analytics model. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 31, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/995062 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11121858. The primary examiner was Shiow-Jy Fan.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 47743 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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