U.S. Patent 11032072 was awarded to NIKE, Inc. on June 08, 2021 and is entitled “System and method for providing cryptographically secured digital assets.” The first named inventor is Hien Tommy Pham of Beaverton, OR. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Presented are cryptographic digital assets for articles of footwear, methods for making/using such cryptographic digital assets, and decentralized computing systems with blockchain control logic for mining, intermingling, and exchanging blockchain-enabled digital shoes. A method of provisioning the digital assets includes receiving a transaction confirmation indicative of a completed transaction of an article of footwear or a digital file representative thereof from a first party to a second party, and transmitting a cryptographic block to a distributed blockchain ledger to record transfer of the cryptographic digital asset to the second party. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on November 27, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/697553 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11032072. The primary examiner was Mohammed Waliullah.

NIKE, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 10869 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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