U.S. Patent 10764259 was awarded to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC on September 01, 2020 and is entitled “Transaction processing for consortium blockchain network.” The first named inventor is Manuel Costa of Cambridge, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:
The disclosed technology is generally directed to blockchain and other security technology. In one example of the technology, a pre-determined type of blockchain or other security protocol code is stored in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the processor. TEE attestation is used to verify that the blockchain or other security protocol code stored in the TEE is the pre-determined type of blockchain or other security protocol code. A blockchain or other transaction is received and processed. Based on the processing of the transaction, an official state of the transaction on a consortium network is directly updated for the network. The updated official state of the processed transaction is broadcasted to the consortium network. Link to Full Patent
This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 29, 2017 as U.S. Patent Application 15/638213 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10764259. The primary examiner was Oleg Korsak.
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 1 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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