U.S. Patent 10587628 was awarded to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC on March 10, 2020 and is entitled “Verifiable outsourced ledgers.” The first named inventor is Ramarathnam Venkatesan of Redmond, WA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A digital ledger built upon a blockchain to provide users with the ability to securely, accurately, and verifiably share state information between distrustful parties is provided herein. The Verifiable Outsourced Ledger is hosted in a networked environment, accessible by multiple parties, and maintains an immutable view of the transactions submitted by authorized parties and a continuous view of the states shared between the parties that the parties can replicate independently locally to verify the integrity of the ledger. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on September 29, 2016  as U.S. Patent Application 15/280806 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 10587628. The primary examiner was Cheng-Feng Huang.

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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