Influential Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC Blockchain Patent – Internet of things blockchain interface – US11012228

U.S. Patent 11012228 was awarded to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC on May 18, 2021 and is entitled “Internet of things blockchain interface.” The first named inventor is Marc Mercuri of Bothell, WA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An Internet of Things (IoT) blockchain interface system facilitates receiving and deploying events from an IoT gateway to a blockchain using the event stack. The system also provides an interface between events that may affect objects on the blockchain from IoT sensors. The system also serves to authenticate IoT events such as sensor data. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 31, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 15/995078 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11012228. The primary examiner was Josnel Jeudy.

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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