U.S. Patent 10922425 was awarded to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC on February 16, 2021 and is entitled “Establishment of a confidential blockchain network.” The first named inventor is Jonathan James Gollogly of Boonsboro, MD. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A permissioned blockchain is caused to be deployed to nodes. Access level blocks are established. Each access level block is configured to store a nanoblock. Each nanoblock is an encrypted database. The access level blocks include access levels blocks for users, and the corresponding access level block for each user includes security credentials for the user. For each access level block: nodes are selected for deployment of the access level block; and the access level block is replicated to each of the selected nodes, such that, after replicating the access level blocks, there are at least two copies of each access level block on the permissioned blockchain, and the permissioned blockchain is capable of performing cryptographic operations, including determining permissions of the users based on the security credentials for the users, and is further capable of storing details of the cryptographic operations on the nanoblocks. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on April 04, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/945712 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10922425. The assistant examiner was William B Jones.

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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